Lynn Johnston Quotes

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing and playing ball. It doesn't make the pain go away, but what else can I do?

'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

We always trained never to really talk about things and get it off our chests but I think now everybody is more open about it.

It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.

I know I'm not the only guy that's had problems in life. And it seems to me that a lot of athletes shy away from talking about things that may have happened to them or their families.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

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've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.