Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

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.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

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

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.