I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.