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

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.