I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.