Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that time, was to rediscover myself, stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.