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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Speaking is physically difficult for me.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.

As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.