Natalie Imbruglia Quotes

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it's hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

To switch off, I will take a sleeping pill if I have to. I also found myself realigning things.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.