If you find yourself in a relationship or even a friendship with someone who's conflicted with their gender identity, just be kind. This is not a life choice. This is something that you are born with. This is like being born with a gene for being tall, short, black, white, gay, straight - it's not a choice.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

I think you get one great love in your life like that, if you're lucky enough, where you hold nothing back. And I'm not saying that's the healthiest way to love either.

I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.