Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.