Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.