I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

My body of work means nothing to me