We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

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I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

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If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

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I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

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Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

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The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

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I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

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