Sally Kirkland

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.