My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.

I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.

Famous-ness is awesomeness... but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

I actually have some family that's from Missouri, and my husband is an outrageous St. Louis Cardinals fan, so we go to St. Louis every once in a while to go see baseball games.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.