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I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.