Art is such an important part of our culture.
I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked