When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
When you get angry, your options narrow.
Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.
I don't think I get angry.
There's definitely ways to get your anger out and not have to yell and kick and scream and fight people. That's not my jam. That's never how I've been.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.
If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.
Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.
I'm nervous before all games, but once I hit that first shot, the jitters go away.
Anxiety is the gap between now and later.
I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.
Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.
The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.
I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.
If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.
I'm one of those guys who, when I'm frustrated, do not get vocal.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
