My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.