I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I have done, for one summer. Of course there are times when your fuel tank's low, but even on the hardest days, you are on a film set. You are doing something creative.