I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.