Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

Everyone has their challenges.

Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.