AJ Tracey Quotes

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

My parents were going through a divorce, and I used to go spend all weekend at the movies to get away from it all. There was something about the sameness of the movies. It was a place for me to go to express my emotions, you know, and let it out.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

The show has become my therapy.

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

The football field, I'd definitely say that's my safe place.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

I find solace in immersing myself in my work.

I needed football - it was just something to do, an excuse to not be at home.