To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

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

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

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 believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.