I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.