When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

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.

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.