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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.

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

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.

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.