What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

I really felt that I had to stay level, I had to control, I had to know what I was eating, I had to know what I was doing, I had to work out. All that stuff is very powerful and it really helps, but now I don't do it out of survival. At first, I was just trying to survive. I assumed at some point I'd be screwed otherwise.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.