Princess, age 20, has found a way to capture the attention of the toughest audience in the world: she plays with fire.

I've had a lot of friends who say that fire seems to be my element, but since I don't buy into that hippie shit, I'd have to say it's just something I really enjoy. It's been particularly empowering because there are so many men at the top of the heap doing fire, that I really like going out there and being very good and proving women can do it, too.

And it is absolutely, thrillingly, amazingly fun. There are so many risks that you take with it, because it is very possible to hurt yourself—you can burn yourself pretty badly; I've had a lot of friends go to the hospital emergency room. But this is so fun, because of the danger. And what I like is that feeling of danger with the fact that it isn't actually terribly dangerous. Sure, I could end up in the emergency room, but I definitely couldn't kill myself doing this. I couldn't do anything that would require more than a few hours stay at the emergency room.

The last time I was doing fire here at Union Square, a woman came up from the subway and said she was a doctor and I must stop doing this immediately, and out of sheer pity, I think, handed me five dollars. But you know what? I won't stop doing this! It's very hard on your lungs, I've had friends who do this go to the hospital and find out they have a collapsed lung, and the fuels we use are carcinogenic, but I've already had breast cancer, when I was 17, and you know, having cancer definitely gives you a unique perspective: it made me want to live more while I'm here. I would love to do fire the rest of my life, even if it shortened it by 50 years!