In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.