will.i.am Quotes

I realized I need to work. I need to be creative. As much as I have angst and anxiety, when I'm idle, it's even more. I have to keep moving. Otherwise, I catch up with myself.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.'

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can't do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

Time off doesn't sit well with me.

As long as you can worry about the stuff you can control, that's always best for you.

If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I think the best solution sometimes to working out a problem is to walk squarely away from it.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

I obsess too much.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.