Christian Audigier Quotes

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

I drink to forget I drink.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

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.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.