People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.