I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.