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I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

My style statement is to be myself! Because if you try to imitate someone else, you will end up feeling uncomfortable.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

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