Del Shannon Quotes

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

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

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

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

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

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

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

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

I don't have time to be depressed.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.