We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

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.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

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.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

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.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

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

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

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

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 a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

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.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

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

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

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

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

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.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

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.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

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

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

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

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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

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

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.

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