Tom Glazer Quotes

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

I talked with labels and they wouldn't help with my international career. They said, 'Saara, if you're in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.' That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I'd go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.

It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

I have modes, mental modes that I get in, and when I'm on the road, I focus very much on doing the work. On playing the show, on being good every night. And part of me just gets switched off. The part that's very private and very personal and very intimate. That especially, that part of me gets shut off.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

I think it's always worth remembering that people sending off mean tweets are probably pretty lonely people.

It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.

My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

I'm just not very good at being happy all the time.

People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks, and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I don't smile all the time. Trust me, there have been days when I have been a mess.

Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for the magazines and newspapers, and it can be very tiring for your well-being.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

I'm always sad.

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks