Peter Lerangis Quotes

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

I've got to deal with some stuff in my mind that's pretty scary.