Scott Hall Quotes

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

Honestly, I think there's a cycle to the popularity of fantasy and fairytales that usually coincides with times of unrest or hardship in our own world. By retelling these legends or immersing ourselves in fantasy realms, we can safely explore the very real, very day-to-day darkness of our own lives.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

My parents were going through a divorce, and I used to go spend all weekend at the movies to get away from it all. There was something about the sameness of the movies. It was a place for me to go to express my emotions, you know, and let it out.

I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.

I've gone through some dark times, and at those times, my tattoos have helped and guided me through.

Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house and not have to be outside and deal with people. But I also found a community online that I was able to escape the feeling I was having of losing a best friend.

I struggle every day to hold on to what little hope I can find.

The one thing that has always been there for me is music. Before I met my wife, there was music. If my wife were to pass or something, there would be music to help me through that.

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.