For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.