Brendan Coyle Quotes

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

An 'Ordinary Woman' is the beautiful and achingly poignant portrait of Gwen, a complex and troubled woman in her middle years.

Midlife is a time of explosive change, particularly for women. It's just like experiencing another puberty. The changes that take place in your body are enormous and, like puberty, you have to throw off the past.

I was going through so many changes in my life - separation with my wife, having an affair - that was all very messy and public. It felt like if I really wanted to rock my boat and make changes in my life and who I am and how I am, that would also mean moving on from Cheers.

Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Everyone knows that when you go through a divorce, it's a really difficult time for both parties and you've all - you believe, you both believe, individually, that you've put your best into it.

Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.