If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

Grace is freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They are easy to get into and hard to get out of.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.