Roland Orzabal Quotes

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

I had suffered from depression in my childhood.

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I was an abused kid.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.