I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

I really like your playing