I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

I always wear the same thing onstage.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.