My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.