Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.
I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.
I've lived the wackiest, weirdest life.
I obviously wasn't a normal tennis story.
Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.
Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.
My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.
People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'
I didn't take a conventional path.
The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
My eccentricity became direction.
I think that I've had a very strange life.
I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.
I think I always had an unconventional career because I didn't fit the mould of the conventional heroine.
My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.
In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre.
It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.
My career has been so different than most guys. I've kind of bounced around and always, one way or another, ended up in the starting lineup. So I would say my career has been very unique.
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride.
I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.
