Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping some kid understand something, that's even better.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.