Maya Angelou Quotes

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

too often, the only escape is sleep

You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

Life is stressful.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

My passion is to help people live lives with less stress.

There is so much stimuli coming at young people, you don't even have time to grieve before something new happens. We are desensitized to the issues.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

I keep myself sane with stuff that's fun and not physical.

There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.

Whether it comes to media pressure or anything, I've become a bit laid back and actually not bothered.

I'm definitely a homebody, so when I have an emotional day on set, I have to go home, take a bath, and go to bed.

Tension happens. It will continue to happen. If we didn't have tension, we wouldn't be alive. How we maintenance ourselves makes all the difference in how we live our lives.

My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.

With anxiety and depression, what's been most helpful to me has been learning a toolbox - a set of skills I can use when I'm in periods of low mood or feel an anxiety attack coming on. When Years & Years took off it felt like I needed that toolbox really quickly.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.