John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I'd like to give people the hope and help I didn't have and that I had to learn by myself.

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.

In my opinion, if you want to pursue an art, especially acting, you have to be really perceptive of what people go through. There is so much bad in the world, and I think that acting it out and exploring it almost helps you deal with it.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.

Kid Cudi has saved lives. He saved my life.

I want the other Victorias out there, the people that are suffering or going through something, to keep fighting.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

As hopeful as I am, there are some times in my life when I get to low points. Luckily, I still have music to get me through things.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.

I honed my craft in the military, because it's the only thing that got me through it, to be honest. Working on music - being able to come home and work on music whenever I got off - was essential. If I didn't have that, I probably would've lost my mind.

My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.

If somebody has hope, don't take that away from them, because maybe that's all they have.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.