Duff McKagan Quotes

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I think I'm prone to panic.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

You cannot escape anxiety … but I have faith that you will rise above your fears.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

All depression is fear-based.

Some people feel pressure; some people don't.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.