The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

I see bodies as individual things.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.