If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

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

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.