I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.