My burden is my past as a TV star. But, you know, pasts cannot be a life sentence.
I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still have the hat.
My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.
