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

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….

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say somethi….

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else..

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwri….

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm….

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter..

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy..

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit..

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend..

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation..

I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs….

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary idea….

What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in o….

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't pub….

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy..