If I look at it that way, I wouldn't want to make it any worse.While growing up, the only active R&B artist Trey Songz paid any mind to was R. And even with that I still get down-spirited a lot, so. I think that as far as the life that I have, I couldn't imagine it being any better. I don't have the tolerance to live in that emotional and physical pain and not have anything positive or good around me. If I would have ever started taking drugs when I was younger, I would never have lived. There is some point where I learnt enough about myself to know that I don't have the tolerance to create other hurdles as well. I know what it feels like to be suicidal, and I know what it feels like to be hopeless.
I'm not somebody else, I'm not in anyone else's skin I don't know what they are thinking or what they are going through or why they do what they do. “I've had close friends who were on the verge of having nervous breakdowns or having one, and would walk into a room and be together. If I look at it that way, I wouldn't want to make it any worse.”
Chris might very well have changed his views since then, but I don't know. And I have more than the benefit of just lyrics to go on."īoth of the above quotes are from the late 90s. I can't imagine anybody knowing me through my lyrics, because I don't particularly feel like I know myself. I think they should spend more time trying to figure out who they are. It's really surprising to me that anyone can think that they have those kinds of insights or spend that much time really worrying about somebody else. "Yeah, especially this postmortem trip when people die and then everybody writes about what they felt that person is going through.
You just have to realize that these are patterns of life and you just go through them.” And at the same time, when I'm feeling great, I remember the depression and think about the differences in what I'm feeling and why I would feel that way, and not be reactionary one way or the other. And whenever I've been in any kind of depression, I've over the years tried to not only imagine what it feels like to not be there, but try to remind myself that I could just wake up the next day and it could be gone because that happens, and not to worry about it. But I do feel that depression can be useful. You'll think somebody has run-of-the-mill depression, and then the next thing you know, they're hanging from a rope. “The problem is, no one really knows what run-of-the-mill depression is.
Ok – my overall impression as far as his periods of depression are concerned, is that he was very aware of this and made a very conscious decision about how to deal with it and what he saw as something positive or negative (and his reality).