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So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

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.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.