"Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion."

"A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'"

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

"I love the attention but I don't like too much of it."

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."