When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.

I can't tell you how exciting it was, because Vincent Price had made a huge impression on me when I was a little kid. I just loved him in films. And so meeting him and becoming friends with him was a big deal for me.

People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.

People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

Brian Hyland just happened to be playing in our town and that song [ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"] was really big. And I got to go back by the stage door, and he autographed a piece of paper for me and I just, I went crazy.

[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.