I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

Got to lose control before you take control.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.