My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

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 started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.