One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.