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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.