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While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world.

I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.