I am a woman of many talents and they're all just pieces of the puzzle that make me and make my career.
I just think that people should be in charge of their own bodies.
I am a proud mother.
I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautiful, open-air space is such a creative environment for me. It's where my writing partner and I wrote much of the script for a Mamas and Papas biopic that's in the works, and where I have my meetings.
Don't sell your publishing.
If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.
You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.
Communicating with a man is a very new experience for me.
There's something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.
When Chynna was born, the first thing I said when they placed her in my arms was, 'I'm going to have so much fun with this little girl.' And I have. I've tried to guide her, make her life happy, and just let her prepare for life.
I love acting, and I really am a group singer, and I'm not really a soloist.
The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.
I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.
I know when 'California Dreamin' was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.
I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.'
When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'
Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.
