Conor Oberst Quotes

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental health.

I don't torture myself.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'

I get frustrated but never depressed.

For me, I kind of just follow my passions and follow what I love to do and use my free time to kind of answer those questions and go through my bad moods and maybe a little light case of depression.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit disorder, and I ignored them all.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.