Grimes Quotes

I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

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

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

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

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

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

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

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.

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

I don't have time to be depressed.

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

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

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

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

My theory is, if you force yourself to smile enough, then you start to feel it. Which comes in handy all the time.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I go as hard as I can when I'm anxiety-free.

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.

The performance anxiety I had is still there. I've been given different kinds of tools and learned how to manage it.