Rachel Cohn Quotes

I have so many messy moments.

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I'm a little bit scared of everything. It's kind of funny. Whenever people ask me how I'm feeling, I'm like, 'I don't know. I'm scared. I'm nervous.'

At the end of the day, I'm a person. I have feelings. I get tired. I get sad.

I think we're all a little bit caught up in the drama inside our own heads.

On very base level, I'm a hot mess.

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.

He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. “Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know that. You deal in facts all the time.” “Yeah, but this isn’t—” I couldn’t argue with him looking at me like that. “I have to go. Wait… you didn’t take the cross.” I held it out to him. He shook his head. “Keep it. I think I’ve got something else to help center my life.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

When you have people who are embarrassing themselves for a living, who are making themselves look foolish and vulnerable and emotional for a living, your day-to-day reality is going to be a high-wire act. People are going to get in fights. People are going to get upset. People are going to walk off set. People are going to call each other names. It happens on every film that has any emotional people.

No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

I'm in a glass case of emotion

Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.