I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Do not take to heart everything you hear.

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

I want to be able to see stuff, " Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

Practices were tough.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.