I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
I tried so hard not to be compared, so I choose to be different and it came to the point that I don't even recognized myself.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.
I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.
I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.
I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard.
I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.
