Art Alexakis Quotes

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

I'm mostly a mess, and I hide it pretty well a lot of time.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.

Lots of songs aren't even from my experiences, but they're about accepting... the dark things about yourself.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.