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

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

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.