You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."

I've been on television saying, "¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.