Quotes About Stress

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I know for a fact that if I could do only music, I'd be out of my mind, insane. I'd be stressed-out; there's so much work. I mean, you work constantly; there are no breaks, really. If you're not promoting a record, you're making one. If you're not making one, you're touring. If you're not touring, you're doing photo shoots and prep work.

Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.

I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

When you're in the same band as somebody, you're seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day. You start to see an awful lot of the bad side 'cause touring is no easy thing.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

I feel like touring is a man's game. And I don't think that's sexist; I just think, on tour, you can't really take care of yourself the way you want to.

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

I always loved touring in Pentatonix; really the only reason it was tough was the pace and no breaks.

Touring doesn't have to be a harried, cliched way of life.

The Matchplay is a straight knock-out tournament so everybody is under pressure straight away - I prefer that.

I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

A coach needs to be a psychologist, because during a tournament you're looking after a team of players which is being watched closely and put under a lot of pressure.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

I used to feel very tired during tournaments. I was drinking four or five coffees per day and felt I needed more.

I always hate starting tours, especially when it coincides with an album coming out.

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.

Oh I've seen Jude Law a couple of times, with his kids in tow, looking stressed. But I've lived in Primrose Hill for 20 years.

It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything that keeps them from being played with gives them stress - things like getting lost, getting broken.