The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
It’s not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it’s all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: “That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?”
The more you are positive and say, I want to have a good life, the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
I think it’s a very healthy thing to learn from what’s happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, ‘How could I have dealt with that differently?’ Then let it go.
I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don’t usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, The Power of Intention, which I loved. I’m not a religious guy, in fact I’m probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.
It’s the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
I’m more cerebral than I want to be.
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
I think that when you let go and “throw it all away” and stop getting attached and say “whatever happens, happens”, you don’t invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.
I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.
I think the most dangerous word in the English language is ‘should.’ ‘I should have done this.’ Or ‘I should do that.’ ‘Should’ implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.
When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of ‘must happen, must happen.’
Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.
I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
I talk to myself, especially in the car.
I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
I don’t know any kid that’s not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That’s why they make nightlights.