You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.
I'm pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that's a habit built maybe from me being OCD.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
Consciousness is a disease.
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.
That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.
I had a bad background just growing up as a child.
L. Ron Hubbard [founder of Scientology] was a falling-down drunk who drank himself to death.
Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.
The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.
I had a difficult childhood. I had lots of anxiety and questions. I found the world scary and intimidating.
I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident.
My mum knows people in the village who died or were affected by Agent Orange who had kids who are disabled. I could have been an orphan. So many things could have gone wrong but here I am... I realise how lucky I am to be here.
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
I've been insane from a very early age.
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
