Quotes About Healing

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

I was closeted into my mid-twenties and even into my late twenties. It screwed up my relationships; it screwed up things with my family that I've since repaired.

I started to sing a lot more during my twenties when I was struggling with depression.

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.

When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.

When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends to happen when one is once or twice removed from grief, I stopped thinking about them all the time.

I see a therapist once, twice a week sometimes.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

I understand the pain of withdrawal, too. I wouldn't want that on anybody.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.