Meredith Brooks Quotes

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

I don't even like to cry in private.

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

It's a daily struggle for me to stay alive. I don't mean to be melodramatic, hyperbolic, or go into my broadcast mode. But even that, my career is bipolar.

I think I've always been regarded as a mentally strong person and a tough character, but it took me a while to reach a point where I realised that internalising your emotions wasn't doing me any good.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.