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I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.