Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.