I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.