As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.