I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.
Tig NotaroI always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.
Tig NotaroWhen I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.
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