Chaos is a friend of mine.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I can express myself.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

The older you get, the better you get.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.