I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

True strength is delicate.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.