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I’m still really close with everyone at home and their parents – and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don’t take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It’s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she’d come out with the best food. Then she’d sit at the table and she wouldn’t eat!

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.