Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.