Francesca Lia Block Quotes

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

I need to write to be happy.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.

My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

If you're stressed out by someone, or if something is dragging you down, it will show on your skin.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.