When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'