coping mechanism quotes

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

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.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

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

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

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

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I hid myself in food.

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

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

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

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.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.