Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known.

I've always been a workout type guy. So if I'm feeling down or I'm not happy with something, I go to the gym and I get a shot of energy. If things don't go well in any aspect of my life, I'm going to the gym and I'm going to shoot. That's my one type of place that's a safe haven where I go and it's just me, the basketball and the hoop, and I'm just doing something I love to do.

Part of my therapy is to write.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.

Basketball is my escape, and I cannot bring any of my problems onto the court.

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

I use music like therapy sessions.