We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

I am a big music nerd.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.