As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

I always wear the same thing onstage.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

I wish I could just project everything on the paper.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not career, money, drugs, sex, alcohol or fun. Not that there's anything wrong with any of those things, but they aren't in the film [Dream of Life], because that wasn't my life at the time.

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