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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

— Fred Durst

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✓Similar Perspectives

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.

— Douglas Coupland

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

— Mary Lambert

I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

— Laura Dern

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

— Martin Parr

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

— Jo Brand

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

— Mary Karr

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

— Dario Fo

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

— Jeff Tweedy

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

— Noel Gallagher