I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.
I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.
I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.
When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.
And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.
I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.
You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
When I'm up, I'm over-exuberant; when I'm down, I just wander round on my own. I have no middle space.
People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.
