Mental Release Quotes

When people are sat quietly for 20-25 minutes per frame, they should be allowed to let their hair down at the end of it.

Is there no way out of the mind?

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

Nowhere else in America is everyone really ready to get outta their minds. No pun intended, like my song. Vegas is that place.

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

I always feel better after a good scream.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.