He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

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

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.