The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

You have to have a little faith in people.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling.("The Wide Net")

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.