Waylon Jennings Quotes

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.