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

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

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

Nobody should get married at 17.