I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social WORLD that I was not part of. I EXISTED on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own FEAR of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of PROFESSORS who meant a lot to me.

My father and MOTHER are both very smart people and I ALWAYS felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very FAR away from who I am, but I really wanted to play ROLES where I'd be taken seriously.

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a PICTURE in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with PRAYER has changed. The picture in my mind has BECOME one of a Heavenly Father who is CLOSE by, who is bathed in a BRIGHT light, and who knows me perfectly.

I was far away from MARATHI LITERATURE, theatre, ARTS, everything. I was a LATE entrant to it.

When I'm WORKING, I ALWAYS read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as POSSIBLE, so I'll read AMERICAN CRIME fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

I NEVER wanted to go to college in the state of Washington because I was so embarrassed and ASHAMED of my FAMILY life. I wanted to run. That's what ALWAYS what I do, I run. I run as far AWAY as I can.

You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come BACK, and it seemed like the same SONG was playing. I want to stay as far AWAY from that as I can in my BAND.

I've played a lot of very posh, SORT of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I FEEL that there is quite a lot DISTANCE there and have played a LITTLE bit far away from myself.

I love music, that it CHANGES so much, but I also want to keep a BIT of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too FAR AWAY from it, or I would do pop music.