I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

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

I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took up all my time. People wanted me to have a Twitter account and I spent the whole day figuring out what would be the first message. I still haven't wrapped my head around it.

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.