You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.