“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”

“An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. The guy who built the Tower of Babel was the first artist. If I had to check out where I was in other centuries, I was his old lady. If I wasn't the guy, I was his chick. He knew that there was more and God got jealous. Even gods get uptight. Women make gods uptight. Everyone thinks of God as a man -- you can't help it -- Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. But a man comes once. A woman never stops coming.”

“For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.”

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.”

“God enters by a private door into every individual.”

“God and other artists are always a little obscure.....”