I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we're duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is "An eye for an eye." Revenge policy; "If you hit me, we'll hit you back worse"; ad infinitum.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.