I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.

I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.