You’re forced into, kind of, respecting yourself more. You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. I think you also look at death differently. It’s like a Catch-22: I feel good about dying now because I feel like I’m alive in her, you know, but at the same hand, you don’t want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life.

-Heath Ledger, in an interview for WJW-TV, a Fox affiliate in Cleveland, about I’m Not There, via the New York Times

TMZ is reporting that Ledger was suffering from pneumonia at the time of his death.