Paul Rust Quotes

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

I can live with myself.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Maybe women should leave time for themselves and their relationships and just have some fun.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

I love distracting myself, just like anyone else. But I also feel a more urgent need in myself to make an effort, to be present, and to try to be something that is in favor of life. Of human life.

If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

My health is more important than arguing and bickering with people.

If we would have had clear brains to take a break, instead of breaking up, we would have left room for balance in our lives.

Children already ignore others and take time on their own, and I think that is something adults should refer back to as they deal with the everyday hustle of the world.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

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.

When I had a mental breakdown I was 26 and the most important thing before that was my work. And I still adore it. But it was all that mattered and everything else was secondary: my relationship, my family, my own health.