Sharon Van Etten Quotes

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

I don't have time to be depressed.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

I'm going to have my moody times.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.