People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

It's just not part of who I am to hate black people or Mexican people. so instead of trying to develop that, what I did -- and this will sound bizarre -- was use my hatred for racists or people who kill gay men just because they're gay. I mean, there are people who beat other people up because they don't like what they're wearing.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

My family is basically Gypsies - for real.