Alex Kapranos Quotes

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.

I got to play with incredible musicians, but it happened really fast. I couldn't believe it was all happening, and so by the time I was, like 18, 19, I sort of took a break and was just like, 'I'm not ready for this.'

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

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.

I always have stress.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I feel the pressure.

When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.