Cat Deeley Quotes

Music became a healer for me.

People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's bad for that brief second you're in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I'm doing.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing!

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking.