Pete Burns Quotes

I tried to walk away from standup, but it's been my therapy - my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process.

If I was a very stable person, I would not have to do comedy. Nobody would have to listen to me.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

I feel like, as a girl, I would have reacted or maybe been more depressed about some of the things that would have happened in my life if I didn't have music.

Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, 'Just so guys know I am having a bad day and I am nervous about these things,' and that makes all the difference.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.