I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the film is not documenting a decline; it's documenting a rise up - first baby steps and then big steps up. The worst that could have ever happened to me had already happened. And so the film is on the ascent. And I think that gives it a nice spirit.

No one knows how powerful technology is.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

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

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.