The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.