I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

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