“I don´t subscribe to victimhood, I think that whatever happens to you in life, is meant to happen to you. You have to take that lemon and make lemonade out of it. Everyone gets dealt a hand of cards, we all get given gifts, and we get given things which are percieved as handicaps, but in fact it´s those handicaps that ultimately are our gifts. Sitting around feeling sorry for yourself or blaming others for your hardships is a waste of time. So it was important to me that my characters weren´t victims, but it was also important that there was no judgement passed on them, because I don´t think any of them were ultimately wrong or bad.
There´s the life that I live out in public, the life that I present to the public, and then there´s hopefully my private life that people don´t know anything about. I think that the only way to maintain sanity being a public figure, or a celebrity, or whatever you want to call it, is to have a private life and be very clear which is which.”