Delta Goodrem Quotes

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

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

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

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

If this world hasn't made you semi-mad, then you ain't living in it.

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

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.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.

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

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

My middle name should be 'Drama,' but I love it. I think everyone should have some kind of stress in their life; otherwise, it's boring isn't it?

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.