If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.