For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

You can't take good health for granted.

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know.

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

Like a frog the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.