I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

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.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Hatred is settled anger.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

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

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

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.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

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

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

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

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

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

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.