Acting is therapeutic.
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
I don't believe in psychology.
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
The soul is healed by being with children.
My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.
I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.
I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.
A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall.
When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.
I had a mental breakdown while doing my Ph.D. at Cambridge, soon after I cut off contact with my parents, and I started seeing the university counsellor, one of the best decisions I ever made. There's something very nourishing in setting aside an hour a week to talk.
I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.
I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
I'm in therapy, and I think everyone should be.
Comedy is saving me.
I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.
