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I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today.

I've kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.

I was raised to pretend.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.