On husband Ahmet Zappa`s noteworthy proposal: "I said, `I need something to make sure that this is real,` a Ferrari or something, and so he gave me a highlighter pen. It was a yellow highlighter pen. ... He told me that his father, Frank Zappa, had asked his mother to marry him with a pen".

[On performing in `Hellboy II`] I loved being surrounded by monsters and I guess it goes back to my childhood. I loved fairy tales - Aesop`s Fables, Grimm`s Fairy Tales. I was a big fan of Little Matchstick Girl.