My first real girlfriend broke up with me because she was married already.

I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn't get that it wasn't working out.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.