Quotes About Healing

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.

I just wanted to make music, because it's how I get stuff off my chest. I want it to always feel like my escape.

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

My childhood was appalling.

I'd had a rough childhood.

The experience of chilling in the Dead Sea is beyond words!

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

I chose to go on my own accord, my own thoughts, and thought it would be beneficial for me to go out to Cliffside in Malibu, Calif., and seek out some help and see what could be done.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.

I understood the whole purpose of Truth and Reconciliation, and I supported it 100 per cent, but I couldn't deal with it myself.

My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something's too fresh, you can't quite word it.

Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

There's always room to mend broken hearts, I suppose.

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

Usually when you get your belly button pierced, you're supposed to get the hoop and you're supposed to heal around it. I basically got the gem right away - you're not supposed to do that.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.