I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
And those who love me best.

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.