We’ve had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

The first things I did when I got out of school in ’65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

You don’t have to tell anybody a damn thing you don’t want to.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn’t hurt anyone, it’s just plain foolish not to take it.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters – proving what I’ve always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.