Quotes About Anxiety

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music - and it's made me a more empathetic person.

After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.

We live in a crazy world. You don't know what's going to happen.

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume, you're with the director, it's so much easier to get in the headspace.

I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.

I hate auditioning so much.

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.

It's scary having a baby, especially as a first-time mother. I think a lot of women can relate to having a moment during the process where you're like, 'You know what? No thanks, I don't want to do this anymore.'

I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.

Most account guys live with fear in their hearts.

When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

I'm not great with heights.

I do have a fear of heights.

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.