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I'm really wary of self-help books.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

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.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.