"I guess when I was in Miss Julie, a Strindberg play, in college. I don't think I was any good. I was probably very grand, but there was a moment where you leave everything behind--transcendence or something. It's another state, definitely. And it's great. It's like when I used to swim and there was a point where you just fly. I always go in search of that."

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