Jack Antonoff Quotes

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

I've always internalized things.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.

Therapy was incredibly enlightening. I don't think it's only necessary if you're unwell - it's a useful tool for me to understand my own mind and how it works.