Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

Someone peeled back the surface of our town, and the whole country saw what was underneath. By Easter 1980 we were creepier than Amityville.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.