The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

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

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

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.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.