Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.

The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.