You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.