The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an ac….

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, non….

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about..

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing..

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through..

Your soul was like a network of spittle..

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist..

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe).

If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he ju….

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm ….

It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a ….

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things..

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in ….

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work..

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something..

Paths that cross will cross again.

I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's….

Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book,….

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife..

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents anot….

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people..