Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.