It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.

It's a very lonely place, being an addict.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.