Our buildings are really needed by our public. We have four different categories that we put the different groups in so we know what to charge.

We certainly don't operate with a huge surplus, so we could be losing money at any given time. We're not unlike any other department in the district.

This is a really difficult time for the Food Services Department. Especially since, at the beginning of the year, we didn't think we would be in a position to make cuts at this point. We've been doing really well and we're working so hard.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years, the people who are here and talking to journalists will be like, 'Oh Lady Gaga changed my life, Nicki Minaj changed my life.' They'll be saying who influenced them and it will be Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, artists like that.

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.