Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the film is not documenting a decline; it's documenting a rise up - first baby steps and then big steps up. The worst that could have ever happened to me had already happened. And so the film is on the ascent. And I think that gives it a nice spirit.