I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

My mother is fine. For me it perfection.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.