I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Love is an angel disguised as lust.

Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that time, was to rediscover myself, stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.