Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

When I'm up, I'm over-exuberant; when I'm down, I just wander round on my own. I have no middle space.

I always find my emotions all over the map, not so much a single thing overriding the rest.

People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm aware that doesn't make it easy for people sometimes.

I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.