We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.