I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

I'm more concerned with the work people do than their gender. When I was younger, I was pretty judgmental. Things had to be a certain way. Now I just want to see the work. It doesn't matter who does it.

I realize that people need something to believe in.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.