An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn`t know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there`s more.

As far as I`m concerned, being any gender is a drag.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60`s is really a survivor.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Americans just don`t know what being a movie star`s all about.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

I was still a baby bird when I was 28.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Let`s just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

I`ve always thrived on the encouragement of others.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Christianity made us think there`s one heaven.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

I didn`t really expect it to go anywhere.

Maybe I`ll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Jesus died for somebody`s sins, but not mine - My sins are my own, they belong to me.

I think I`m constantly in a state of adjustment.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I look at these kids, you know, and I could be their mother, their mistress, their older woman. Some of the kids at the concerts are 15.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can`t help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

I have a daughter who`s 11 years old. Maybe she`ll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she`ll play me in my life story.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I`m sorry I wasn`t a better writer or a better singer.

When I was younger, I also dreamed of being an opera singer, simply because of Maria Callas.

I like gettin` old.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

Jesus died for somebody`s sins but not mine.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock `n` roll was asleep.

Rock n` roll is dream soup, what`s your brand?