I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

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.

I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.