Washed Out Quotes

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while writing, directing and editing a film, I would have lived it 5000 times. Naturally, one tends to loose objectivity.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

I had every stress-related illness you can get.

It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that's very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.