“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing. I was smoking way too much dope. I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself. I got to, ‘What's the point? I know better than this.’ I used to deal with depression, but I don't now, not this decade – maybe last decade. But that's also figuring out who you are. I see it as a great education, as one of the seasons or a semester, ‘This semester I was majoring in depression.’ I was doing the same thing every night and numbing myself to sleep, the same routine. I couldn't wait to get home and hide out. But that feeling of unease was growing and one night I just said, ‘This is a waste.”
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