The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

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

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.