Carol Alt Quotes

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

I suffer from everyday life.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

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

I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

I am heartedly tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

I studied well, and I was the leader among my friends. However, I started losing interests in everything, and started becoming more and more awkward from some point.

I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.

When you've done as much travelling as I have, it becomes hard work - I probably spend 90 per cent of the year travelling.

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.

Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.

Travel takes a toll on you.

I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.