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.

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.

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

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

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.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

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