Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'

Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.

I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.