When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try, ' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

I'm well trained. The only reason I am this slim is that I have to fit into the clothes. The samples are size 8, and I am naturally a size 10 to 12. I have been on a diet for my entire life.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.

‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?