And There Was A Beutiful

. . . I Wrote A Letter To Thomas Pynchon Asking, Can I Have Your Permission To Try To Make An [adaptation] Of Your Book? And I Had No Idea That He Would Answer Me, Because He's Pretty Elusive. But He Did Send A Letter Back That Said, Yes, You Can Do That - As Long As The Only Instrument In The Opera Is A Banjo. I Thought, That's An Interesting Way Of Saying No.

Art Is About Paying Attention.

I Wanted To Impress People Because I Was Kind Of A Kid Who Was Lost In The Crowd - Was Sort Of My, Feeling About Childhood Was Being Part Of A Big Family.

I Am A New Yorker, One; I'm An Artist, Two; I'm A Woman, Three.

You Know The Reason I Love The Stars Is Because We Can't Hurt Them: We Can't Burn Them, We Can't Melt Them , We Can't Make Them Overflow, We Can't Flood Them Or Burn Them Up—so We Keep Reacing For Them