Tony Earley Quotes

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

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

Everyone has their down days. Unfortunately, that's when I am the most prolific.

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

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.

When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful.

Things in the industry get too competitive. In that pressure, you tend to lose yourself. So, it's important to have someone to turn to and vent out.

There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

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.'

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

I don't have ulcers; I give them.

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.