Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.