Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

To live is to think.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.