Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.