When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.
In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.
As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.
I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.
As you age, you start to realize that your emotions are in your hands and not someone else's. Once you put them in someone else's hands, that's when you give them the power, and you can't change it. Only they can change it.