James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.