When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.