As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

I've just always been interested in how people lead their lives. How they survive in this world. I'm curious about people's damage, and navigating that and the way people forgive. I find it really interesting. That's why we have to transform on a daily basis, work on ourselves. It's work.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

I never like to tell people what they should take.