I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

We're connected to God through faith and Satan through fear.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.