One of my FAVORITE things about PLAYING Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to PLAY a real TEENAGER who deals with everyday issues.

Where ISSUES used to be, SAY, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so FORTH, all politics is global now because all business is global.

One PERSON's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common GROUND on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it ANYWHERE in the COUNTRY.

There are no ACCOUNTING ISSUES, no trading issues, no RESERVE issues, no previously UNKNOWN PROBLEM issues.

Raising awareness on the most pressing ENVIRONMENTAL issues of our TIME is more important than EVER.

I think that you can DISAGREE with people and debate over their POSITIONS with issues without engaging in the POLITICS of PERSONAL DESTRUCTION.

Issues like OBESITY do, as you WELL KNOW, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

Often times, political GAMES PREVENT SENATORS from even beginning to DEBATE some of the most IMPORTANT issues.

The size of the BUDGET doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of ISSUES I have on a low budget FILM I have on a BIG budget film as WELL, but they're just much bigger.

I call it LIKE I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being CANDID on the HOT issues.

We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's ROOM for ART that APPROACHES these ISSUES from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.

But I don't FEEL that as a politician I'm hugely different. OBVIOUSLY I have a different set of EXPERIENCES that chime with experiences that MANY of my constituents have. I think I essentially still have the same set of values and the issues that are IMPORTANT to me don't seem to have changed hugely.

I had quite a chaotic home life, it wasn't STABLE, my DIET wasn't great. I was never an overweight CHILD, but I had behavioural issues. I THINK that was linked to my upbringing and not having a great start with my nutrition.

I don't have any issues with CLOWNS - I feel like I owe them an apology in some WAYS.