I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.
I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.