Quotes About Anxiety

I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.

The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.

I am nervous about how my debut novel will be received, because there's always that feeling that somebody might say something negative. I say I won't read the reviews, but I probably will. But just because somebody says something negative, I don't have to believe it.

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

You have to dig deep to make great music, and it gets harder and harder. It's a difficult, painful process to reach deep in there and pull out the real gems. And you have to have that little bit of anxiety of, 'Can I really do this? Am I good enough?' You need that in the recipe to really get down in there.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

I was really fearful that I was going to lose my record deal. It's really scary as a female to not have that success early on in your career, 'cause you don't know how many chances you are going to get.

'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.

The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.'

I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.

No one looks forward to a recount.

I'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.

I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

Being on the red carpet is both fun and a little nerve wracking, but more fun.

Our better angels get clouded and we're more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler, even. But I do think there's hope for everyone... I think redemption is possible for anybody.

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.