I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.

He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'.

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here.

Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.