David Strickland Quotes

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups.

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

My mind can't always be on fighting.

I can't spend my life worrying about others.

I've learned to keep a lot of stuff to myself.

I think it's a loss of energy to be worrying about other people's issues.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

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

I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.