Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.
I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.
I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.
I was a scam artist in high school for a while.
I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.
When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.
I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.
We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.
