Jamie Hince Quotes

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I feel the pressure.

I suffer from everyday life.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

… a job of infinite stress

When you're touring, you only see the auditorium and the hotel room. You can't go out because you get mobbed. You're tired, edgy and under pressure. The fun had gone out of it, so we decided to walk away from it all.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

How can you see that the pressure is getting to me? I think you can see me pull back more from the community around me.

My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?