It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.
I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
I want to do roles that will challenge me. I'm definitely interested in period pieces. But I definitely don't want to limit myself. I'm very open to different roles.
I'm black, yeah, but I'm just an actor, so everything I do doesn't have to be color-specific or specific to history. But I got to a point where a lot of people wanted to offer me period pieces, like that's the only thing I could do.
My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.
Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.
Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. It's only a half-inch, but every time anyone sees it, they're reminded of the six million who perished, and so am I.
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!
I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
For me, travel is one of the biggest perks of pro wrestling. You get to see the world on somebody else's dime.
Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.
I would not openly categorize myself as a sullen teenager, but that kind of role comes more easier to me than a bright, perky thing.
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up.
'Me Too' became the way to succinctly and powerfully connect with other people and give people permission to start their journey to heal.
My mother did not raise me to ask for permission to lead.
