I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.

America's a very traumatized society.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.