I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.

As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

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.

Paths that cross will cross again