I feel like I’m being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I’m upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo’s outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody’s peeping.

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Eeew, I’d be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there – and Google themselves? That’s kind of weird.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it’s very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they’re doing.

NBC had a show called ‚The Toughest Bouncer in America‘ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‚bouncer.‘ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That’s why I tend not to wear heels.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.