Michael Raymond-James Quotes

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.

If you make one thing your life and soul - as much as football is my career and main focus - then it turns into a very mentally unstable place to be.

A footballer can have even more problems than other people. Sometimes money and fame can become a problem, too.

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

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

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.

I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.