It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.
I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.
I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!
I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.
I had a lot of depression as a kid.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.