“I’ve been collecting since college, .. When we’re children, we’re taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors.”

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it’s unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it’s unrehearsed and clumsy!

In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn’t been squashed. The early stuff is still there.

When they feel invisible, it’s easy for them to leave.

Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.

It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.

When I put something into motion

Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.

the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.