The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

By Harmony I came, harmony I bringand by harmony I goReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleSeptember 26, 2016

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).

No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!