An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.