"But I just don't play like a bass player, it's like having a deep guitarist," he stressed about his redefining of the role of the rock instrument via musicians who followed, Jean-Jacques Burnel of the Stranglers, Peter Hook of Joy Division/New Order fame, and, more recently, Mike Kerr of Royal Blood.
This isn't, he stresses, about ego, nor is it an exercise in rock star worthiness.
If his grandmother just passed away, he's stressed about finding a new job, or he's had a horrible cold, then he may just not be feeling like himself; understand that not all of his behavior has to do with you.
His comparison was "not about terror," he stressed, but "about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith".
Unless he's been overwhelmed with work, in which case he probably tells you all about specific things he's stressed about.
Like other boys, he became stressed about math tests and how his sports favorites, Kurt Warner and the Rams, were doing.
On another occasion Scout destroys Henry's eyeglasses on a day when he is stressed about a work deadline, leaving him prostrate on the floor, sobbing in utter defeat.
Holmes had well-documented concerns about her former husband Tom Cruise's close ties with Scientology, and Basinger's ex-husband, Alec Baldwin, left that infamous phone message, calling his 11-year-old daughter "a rude thoughtless little pig", later saying that he was stressed about access issues, as if this gave him permission.
I was stressed with kids and he was stressed about work and money.
At the height of his addiction, Dan was taking the equivalent of 5mg a day, and sometimes more if he was stressed about something ("meeting up with a girl, an exam, a night out").
It's less good to do it when he's stressed about work or school, or distracted by something else (like if you're both at a football game and he's paying more attention to the game than you and what you're trying to ask).
