Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. "You are in this box. That's all you are, that's everything you are." It's a very de-humanizing experience.

I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in my life, but I felt like I had done adolescent work on the show, and stepping into the New York theater arena was the first time I felt like I'd come into my own. I felt like I was proving myself in a gladiatorial arena.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.