What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

Consciousness does affect matter.

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.