I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.

I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"

You know how sometimes you're talking to people who love you and give you unconditional love, and you say, "But you know what? Let me back up. I forgot to say . . ."You can do that, right? You don't hesitate and say, "Oh my God! I forgot to say that!". You just speak! And you say it all, until you have nothing more to say. And that's your first draft. It's done.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.