I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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 more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.