LG: My father would be in his boxer shorts in front of the stereo with a baton. He loved classical music, and he would play it really loud and he would conduct the orchestra.

And he's a little fat bald man. And he'd get behind the wheel of a car and he would become like a Napoleon, he became nuts. He gave everybody the finger. He never used the brakes. And I remember being so frightened, I'd sit in the back on the floor, crying. Because I said, "We're gonna die."

RG: [LAUGHS]

LG: The problem growing up in my home was that I didn't know what was normal. We're yelling and we're pinching and we're hugging and we're cursing and‚ we peed with the door open. I mean, I didn't know this was not normal behavior. I didn't know people had secrets, you didn't tell your mother everything.

RG: When did you learn?

LG: Well, it's still hard.

RG: [LAUGHS] Who were your old boyfriends, ho...
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