I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Action is the mother of creation.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.