If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

Life is short but heartache is shorter

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.

My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean it twice a week, but let's just say that, in between times, maybe it's not quite so clean.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.