Meredith Brooks Quotes

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.'

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

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.

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.