You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.