I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can even when there are problems it can make you beautiful on the outside.

If I weren't performing I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

My attitude toward graduate students was different I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on and I encouraged them.