People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.