I love cats. I have a lot of CAT TALES, HA ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm KIND of a cat lady that way.

It's so FRENCH to be a CAT PERSON.

I try not to SET myself up as different or as a CELEBRITY or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't KEEP off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of FAITH.'

'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel CLOSEST to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American LIFE, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in UPSTATE New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in FACT my own cat.

I do GET approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my PRESENCE... so I don't think that PEOPLE can SEE the face.

My couch is MADE of CAT's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask PEOPLE to SIT on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

If I had INSTAGRAM, it WOULD be PICTURES of my SON, who is a CAT.

When you're special to a CAT, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the SIGHT of you, the sound of your voice, the TOUCH of your hand.

Don't BUY furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. GO to an ANIMAL shelter for a cat or dog. And read a BOOK about how to care PROPERLY for your particular pet.

I'm on the Internet heavy. I'm on YouTube like it's NOBODY's business. That's where I discovered a cat like Reggie Watts. By learning that MUSIC, I became the BLACK sheep in the GROUP, like 'Here comes Masego with all that weird music.'