It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore.

Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

When I was into The Beatles, I cut my hair into a Beatle haircut, which looked so ridiculously stupid with my little cat-eye glasses that I wore.

Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Stand up for what you believe in even if it causes waves.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.