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I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn't quite see that.

I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.