Grace VanderWaal Quotes

I can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.

Kids in the entertainment industry are at a risk of developing depression, as they see glamour at an early age.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Some of those kid stars who got screwed up were pretty talented. My mom warns me every day what can happen. Sometimes she clips the headlines out and puts them in my room.

Too much tension can do bad things to you.

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

I don't think people get the pressure of becoming famous and what it does for an artist. What does that for your creative self. And what that can do for your mental health. And I would say, from year two to year six or eight of 'Grey's,' it was extremely difficult and very stressful and traumatic, if I'm being honest.

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.

When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight.

There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.

I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

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.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I'm working myself to death.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.