"I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night."

"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."

"For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent."

"Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's."

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

"You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy."

"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."

"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."