Roland Orzabal Quotes

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

Therapy was incredibly enlightening. I don't think it's only necessary if you're unwell - it's a useful tool for me to understand my own mind and how it works.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.

I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.