If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.