You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her completely to myself.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.