I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

If there's a heaven, I would probably go. I've actually a very nice person.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.