I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and I wasn't raised in our present culture but it has great pressure that as a young person I never had. Material pressure, social pressure, visual pressure, how you look, and I just try to appeal to young people to think for themselves, to be their own person, and to ask questions and also be very attentive to our planet and our environment.

It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where one goes to find some of the darker, edgier aspects of life, the film was born of grief.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.