Konnie Huq Quotes

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.

How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper."

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

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

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.

We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'