I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.