Zoey Tur Quotes

We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

There aren't many woman coaches in general, and I actually think it's good to have a male coach. Guys and girls have different mentalities. Girls are so stressed about everything. Guys take everything much more lightly. That's great, and it's something we have to learn from. I think one woman on a team is enough!

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

I don't feel the need to defend myself anymore - I am a woman. I feel differently and I think differently than a man. If you're going to bully me or laugh at me because something makes me emotional - you go right ahead because that's what makes me a woman, and I don't want to be anything but that.

I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.

I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

I'm a nail biter and have been my whole life.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

When I am stressed I pluck my beard, leaving bald patches.

It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.

It took me a long time to figure out how to deal with pressure.

When I was in the closet, I had so much pressure on my shoulders. When I came out, that was actually the first moment I felt relieved of those stresses. It really showed in my skiing.