And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.