If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Painting completed my life.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.