Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn't even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.

There were plenty of times before I did stand-up where I needed counselling, but I didn't go because it would have meant I was officially ill.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

It's OK to have up days. It's OK to have down days. But especially remember it's OK to talk to people and let them know you're not OK. Don't think it's something you have to keep to yourself to fit in or to be normal. There's no such thing as normal.

Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.

Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel completely crushed by existential dread, I'll end up writing about it, not the great day I had at the park with my friends. I hope it resonates with people - and it does, with some.

Sometimes I just want to sit in my boxer shorts and cry. That's what being a human is.