In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

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

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

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

Never get out of bed before noon.

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

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… 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.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

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

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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.

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

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

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.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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 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.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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

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

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.