I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and MAKE MOVIES. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every LITTLE scene... I just thought I'd GO back and draw my comics and have a HAPPY life.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody LIKE, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The NEXT day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you THINK that this is the answer to all THINGS.

In the BEGINNING of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the SPOTLIGHT. I basked in it. And then all of a sudden, I turned into this PERSON who was RECLUSIVE, or HIDING.

When I PICKED up my guitar, I spent the FIRST DAY learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could PLAY the blues.

When I first started on television, PEOPLE, and EVEN my own MANAGER at the time, would tell me I had to make all of these changes. But you have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my SHAPE or who I am; you're the one with the problem!' And when you can really believe that, all of a SUDDEN other people start believing, too.

For some reason I did something where I realized I COULD get a reaction. That was when I BROKE out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or ANYTHING LIKE that and I just kind of was GOING along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and BECOMING a HUMAN being. At some POINT, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a SUDDEN, you're out in the world.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so SUDDEN, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the DANGER that goes with this sort of TRAVEL, THOUGH one thinks fast at such times.

My CONSULTANT keeps TELLING me SUDDEN death could come at any MOMENT.

I WOULD play my DUNGEONS and Dragons songs and WATCH PEOPLE's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were LIGHTING up and engaging.

I BELIEVE that SUDDEN FAME is not GOOD.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the MODEL LIFE. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the TIME. And there's always a party to GO to.

All of a sudden I DISCOVERED that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the PERFECT METAPHOR for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I COULD certainly eat my fill of it.