Glen Hansard Quotes

... too emotionally strung out.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

The time I kill is killing me.

I suffer from everyday life.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.

The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.