If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

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

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

I think that things like curses or whatever - those labels - come from belief systems, universal belief systems. So when you get a global consciousness of something, then that becomes a quote-unquote "truth" for everybody. You know, "This is what happens in the Kennedy family." "This is what happens with the Hemingways." And the more people believe in it, the more it kind of resuscitates the problem; it keeps bringing life to this idea that a curse exists that you can never get out from under.

If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.