Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.