I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.

My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.