Brian Wilson Quotes

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

I don't have time to be depressed.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

I'm going to have my moody times.