I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for "Mercy Is ..." we all got in one mind because the song is delicate; it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

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