Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself.

In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.