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I'm a hedonist.

As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.