You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

He's obviously been dealing with some issues and his way of handling it was to remove himself from the scene.