I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

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

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.