The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.