Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.