Quotes from Grace Slick

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

I'm very fond of drugs.

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever.