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.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

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

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

I realize that people need something to believe in.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.