There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.