I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.