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

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

Greatness breaks laws.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.