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.

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

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.