If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

We all have done something unethical.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Single life is so overrated.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Forget the past.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

We are wiser than we know.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I’m here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, ‚Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators. We’re also inventors. We’re also thoughtful.‘

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I’m afraid to fail again.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Some people would like me to be round again.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.