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Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.