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I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

I am fortunate in having people around me who protect me.

I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

I've definitely made sure to surround myself with friends who are going to protect me.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.

The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.