Alexei Sayle Quotes

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

I struggle with control.

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

I have some anger issues.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

We all have our inner demons.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

Anger can be an expensive luxury.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.