I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

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.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

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

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.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

To live is to think.

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

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I like to let things breathe.

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

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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?

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

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.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

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

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

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

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

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

It is important to remember yourself.

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

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.