To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be controlled in the bedroom and find great satisfaction and freedom with it. That is the most anti-feminist statement I have ever heard. Feminism is all about letting women be who THEY want to be. Not how YOU want them to be...I am both a feminist AND a submissive in my sexual fantasies and reality. You are the one who is anti-feminist who tells me I can’t be.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.