Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

I think it's really really important to mix it up as an actor to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.

Yes all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

As an actress it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and actually whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

I do write a lot from personal experience but I also embellish a bit.