There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

I think you're conditioned, especially in America, that there is this line you have to walk down. Anybody who wants to move off that path at any point in their life is my hero. Anybody who goes off that path has to wrestle with that.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.