The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.