I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.

I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.