Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.