Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?