On Herself/Her Life
"I'm always silly! I'm very silly. You have to ask my boyfriend. I tend to talk in a baby voice and I'll sing and dance around. I kind of have multiple personalities, and my boyfriend has begun to name them. I've got many different voices-I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously." (2002, New York Observer interview by George Gurley)
"A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really-so it's O.K." (2002, New York Observer interview by George Gurley)
[On being compared to a dolphin] "I guess because I'm playful and I have that kind of abandon and everything. And there's also something a little mysterious about them and whatnot." (2002, New York Observer interview by George Gurley)
"I'm not cool, quite the opposite. I'm a real geek." (2002, Elle UK, First Word, edited by Cat Callender)
"I love fairies and magic! I love nice, pretty things!" (2002, i-D Magazine Interview by Glenn Waldron)
"We did [a pre-Broadway run of The Diary of Anne Frank] in Boston and I was hit by a car. So, I missed the opening and a couple months of the show in New York. No one has said 'Break a leg' to me ever since." (2002, Playbill interview by Ernio Hernandez)
"I grew up around adults and started working so young I thought I was an adult. It might be true that kids today grow up too soon, but I think it would take too much reworking of society to make that not true. It's better to be honest and cope with it. We don't live in an ideal world." (2001, Chicago Tribune interview by Julia Keller)
"I think I lost and gained. I can't have one without the other -- I can't have everything I've had and have had a perfect childhood. And you can't go back." (2001, Chicago Tribune interview by Julia Keller)
"I always thought of myself as an adult. My teen years were when I was, like, 6. My life was destined to be out of the ordinary. I never crawled. I started walking when I was 8 months old." (2001, Chicago Tribune interview by Julia Keller)
"My favorite food is pepper. I think that's because, when I was just a little kid, my parents told me, 'Pepper isn't for kids.' So I loved it." (2001, Chicago Tribune interview by Julia Keller)
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