Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.