Ian Frazier Quotes

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Sometimes I just need to be out in nature. It's amazing how much I need time on my own.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

My parents were going through a divorce, and I used to go spend all weekend at the movies to get away from it all. There was something about the sameness of the movies. It was a place for me to go to express my emotions, you know, and let it out.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

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.

I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

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.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

The show has become my therapy.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.

I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.

It's definitely a reason I game so much: to forget about the pressures of fighting and the hardships of training and everything.

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

Music is a wonderful way of healing and helping get through things.