Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.