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

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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

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.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

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

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

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

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Hatred is self-punishment.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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 am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

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.

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

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

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.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

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.

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

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

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.

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?

Fashion breaks my heart.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

When you get angry, your options narrow.

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

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.