My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.