Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.