More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.

I hated the soup and felt little for the can.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

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

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.