The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

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

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)