12 quotes
Truth and beauty. That’s what I hope to deliver.
Interview (2021)
In New York, constantly, the street is challenging you to relate to it.
Interview with Rolling Stone (1979)
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.
Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.
Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003)
I've got nervous energy like a kid, still.
Interview (2014)
I like to work myself up to a state of enthusiasm about anything I do, otherwise, what’s the point?
Interview with Rolling Stone (1979)
I think if you’re healthy, aging can be quite a beautiful process, and I think we’ve created an artificial problem for ourselves.
Interview with Rolling Stone (1979)
I feel more ambidextrous: I suffer, I enjoy; I suffer, I enjoy.
Interview (1997)
And the seasons they go round and round,
And the painted ponies go up and down,
We're all captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go 'round and 'round and 'round
In the circle game.
(Do you ever make yourself cry when you write?) No, never. I’m not a weeper. I’m a snarler. I just put all the weeping in the words. The words are the weeping.
Interview (2021)
I need to explore and discover and so that has given me, really, to some what seems like courage, but really it's just in my stars, there's nothing I can do about it . . . . I guess I'll just take my award and run now.
Like Van Gogh's paintings were a diary of his life, my paintings are kind of a diary of my life. And they're all good moments that I've preserved, and I've got them around me.
Interview (2014)