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I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.