I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.