I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.