He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.