Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

You have to have a little faith in people.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.