In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango

Boys are cute, but food is cuter

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.