Matt Lucas Quotes

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people - I didn't know any other lens in which to do it.

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger times of your life... trying to make sense of some the stuff we probably all went through.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

If I was a very stable person, I would not have to do comedy. Nobody would have to listen to me.

Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.