Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'!

I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre.

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that's pretty much my only prerequisite.

The link between my brain and my mouth is just not there anymore.

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements.

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

God the Father and the Son don’t wish you to remain blind. It is men that put blindness upon other people for the purpose of control and manipulation.

Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.