You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

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