I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.

Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

[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.

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

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.