Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

I dig being a mother.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.