As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right

The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It's very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want.

I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.