Jenifer Lewis Quotes

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

Life is challenging. I wish I could tell you that you’ll always be on top of the mountain, but the reality is that there are days when nothing will go right, when not only will you not be on top, you may not even be able to figure out which way is up. Do yourself a favor, and don’t make it any harder than it has to be. In those moments, be careful how you speak to yourself; be careful how you think of yourself; be careful how you conduct yourself; be careful how you develop yourself.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

There was always the next therapy appointment, next surgery, next college exam, but with time and deep thought, those evolved into life lessons, which then evolved into perspective.

I just want to send a message to my fans saying that it's OK to admit that you need help, and it doesn't make you weak.

With things that I'm going through, whether they be on a small scale or a large scale, I'm thinking, 'Who else is going through this? And how can I address it and bring it to light to help someone else?'

I'm trying to stay focused - trying to open up again - and the music really did a lot of greatness for me and meeting a lot of people that really had concern and compassion for me.

I'm not going to lie: it's tough. There were a couple of games where you're down, and you're in a really dark place, and you don't know if you're ever going to come out of it. You realize, 'Hey, I'm having a bad day,' but you realize there are people out there having worse days.

My own personality is fairly optimistic and generally very happy, but like everyone else I've been through difficult stuff, particularly in my teenage years, where I experienced enough melancholia to feed any number of electronic records.

As a young boy - I was 20-21, around that age - I didn't think I was being treated right. It can affect anyone, not just me. It was about how I bounced back, how I had to think and sit down and try to move on. Not let that defeat me.