I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in CHARACTER on STAGE in a PLAY. ODD. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

My MUSIC is DEFINITELY very PERSONAL. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling LIKE one has had one's say.

It was my INTEREST in happiness that LED me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is REALLY the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday LIFE, and a significant element of happiness.

Music has ALWAYS been a dominant FORCE in my LIFE. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

I THINK Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by LOOKING at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in EVERYDAY LIFE.

As much as I love to dive into the ACTION early, I THINK the hero's journey is important - the IDEA that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's EVERYDAY life before you turn that WORLD upside down.

In my NORMAL life, I do not speak with an accent. It's HARDER for people to realize my HEARING LOSS in everyday life.

In real everyday life, I don't WALK around feeling fat, and if on TV I'm considered fat, HONESTLY, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in MEDIA. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and STILL be beautiful.

Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to LOOK - you have to work out, you have to look - you RARELY get to play someone who's just human, who's REAL, who is OVERWEIGHT, EVEN not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.