The old Lena is dead..

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot..

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling h….

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

I've aged, but grown up? No..