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'm not looking for sympathy at all.

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.

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