Roland Orzabal Quotes

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

What you don't deal with rules your life.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.

I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's about five years of my life that's virtually gone. I've thought about it a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that it might be for my own protection that those memories are gone, and maybe I don't want to dredge up those things.

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad.

For like four or five months of my life I was too scared to like, move around and reach out for things because I was worried that I'd my hands would run into glass, like I could reach up and if I reached up and knocked on the air it would make a noise. I couldn't look at the sky because I was worried that I see a crack.

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

Everybody's got some things that have happened bad in their past. Mine was just very public.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

Don't take your bad shots home with you.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.