Kerry Thornley Quotes

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

Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression and yet was a great president. Don’t you think that should help with the stigma of mental illness? We should tell everyone about that.

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

If, like me, you have many reasons to be less than secure and self-assured, and like me, you are far from stable even on your best days, don't for a moment imagine a psychotherapist will be of more help than a physiotherapist.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

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

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

I've been called crazy many times before.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

I've been insane from a very early age.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

I'll die a crazy old man!

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

People think I'm nuts.