Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

Having been through a tremendous amount of emotional pain, to process it properly, to be able to have it make sense and then move it through your body, your mind, your spirit, and be done with it, you really have to address it head-on. Being able to really have the courage enough to truly face it, to truly look at it, to truly feel it.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

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

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

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.