I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.