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I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.