My mother answers all my fan mail.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where one goes to find some of the darker, edgier aspects of life, the film was born of grief.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.