Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.