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

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

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

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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

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.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

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

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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 can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

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

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

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.

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.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I don’t like being alone.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.