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The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and let people know a little bit more about it that they may not have known.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.