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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.