Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris..

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine..

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words..

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés..

Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don'….

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs ….

New York is the thing that seduced me..

I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans….

My mother answers all my fan mail..

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me..

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection.

If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail..

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule..

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth a….

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something..

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yoursel….

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and ….

People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining….

I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the fil….

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal real….