You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast you skip it.

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems if you keep yourself aware of it you don't really have a day off.

It's hard to think of yourself as a brand especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon and you say to yourself 'Mick it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work and a lot of fun to make a life.

Don't make music for some vast unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough you will be a healthy person. That is if you write what you need to write as opposed to what will make money or what will make fame.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

Sometimes if you don't have kids yourself it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong independent woman how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do I can do.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it but luckily for my sister and me Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up be proud of who you are and never feel sorry for yourself.

My mom always says 'If you don't believe in something you'll lose yourself completely.'

Once in high school I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

In a sacred ground like marriage you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

I don't know why but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself too because there is an inevitable comparison.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself you know what is my role? What is my responsibility?

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.