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.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

I don’t like being alone.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

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

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

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

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

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.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

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.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

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.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

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

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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