Aubrie Sellers Quotes

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

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

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

I get depressed when things are not right.

One thing about me is that I don't like to be sad all the time.

I'm always sad.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.