--- title: "1 Anxiety Keeping Quotes By JP Saxe" description: "1 Anxiety Keeping quotes by JP Saxe. Plus more from JP Saxe and more Anxiety Keeping sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/jp-saxe-17478_anxiety_i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough_1876745.jpg" --- > [I want to be watching and reading enough about what's going on to feel informed and empathetically connected to the world around me, but not enough to have anxiety keeping me up at night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough-about-what-s-going-on-to/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/jp-saxe-17478_anxiety_i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough_1876745.jpg) ## More by JP Saxe > [I used to think I wouldn't be happy being anything but a musician.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/i-used-to-think-i-wouldn-t-be-happy-being-anything-but-a-musician/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [I think 99 percent of the time, texting your ex is a horrible idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/i-think-99-percent-of-the-time-texting-your-ex-is-a-horrible-idea/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [Oscar Peterson's 'Hymn to Freedom' is the first song I ever lifted on the piano. I learned it note-for-note and it's still probably the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/oscar-peterson-s-hymn-to-freedom-is-the-first-song-i-ever-lifted-on/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [It's OK to be an overthinker, an over-feeler, and it's the only thing I know how to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/it-s-ok-to-be-an-overthinker-an-over-feeler-and-it-s-the-only-thing-i/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [In the grand scheme of things, choosing your love for somebody over the petty reasons you don't talk to someone is a meaningful consideration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/in-the-grand-scheme-of-things-choosing-your-love-for-somebody-over/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [My hope is that my songs make you think about yourself, in your own life, and not really about me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/my-hope-is-that-my-songs-make-you-think-about-yourself-in-your-own/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [The first time I heard 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,' I did not know music could sound like that. The vocal arrangement on 'Tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/the-first-time-i-heard-the-miseducation-of-lauryn-hill-i-did-not-know/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [I don't think, as an artist, you should be trying to make music for every moment of someone's day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/i-don-t-think-as-an-artist-you-should-be-trying-to-make-music-for/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [Things often feel real when we're able to share them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/things-often-feel-real-when-we-re-able-to-share-them/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [It always starts as journaling for me. I find if I try to write a song, it doesn't feel as sincere as if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/it-always-starts-as-journaling-for-me-i-find-if-i-try-to-write-a-song/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [Fifteen minutes before I got the notification that 'Julie Michaels has tagged you in a post,' I was listening to her music and talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/fifteen-minutes-before-i-got-the-notification-that-julie-michaels-has/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [I Don't Miss You' is me trying to lie to myself about my feelings - how I distract myself from them, how I compartmentalize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/i-don-t-miss-you-is-me-trying-to-lie-to-myself-about-my-feelings-how/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [To me, songs hit harder when they live in the questions, because songs have always been a mode of sorting through my emotions. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/to-me-songs-hit-harder-when-they-live-in-the-questions-because-songs/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [Once I involved myself in music as a 13-year-old, I started to learn something about myself that I liked. That was big for me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/once-i-involved-myself-in-music-as-a-13-year-old-i-started-to-learn/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) > [There's only so much numbers on the Internet can be emotionally internalized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/there-s-only-so-much-numbers-on-the-internet-can-be-emotionally/) [JP Saxe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jp-saxe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxiety-keeping/jp-saxe/#itemlist", "name": "1 Anxiety Keeping Quotes By JP Saxe", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to be watching and reading enough about what's going on to feel informed and empathetically connected to the world around me, but not enough to have anxiety keeping me up at night.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "JP Saxe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jp-saxe/i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough-about-what-s-going-on-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/jp-saxe-17478_anxiety_i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough_1876745.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/jp-saxe-17478_anxiety_i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough_1876745.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/jp-saxe-17478_anxiety_i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough_1876745.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I want to be watching and reading enough about what's going on to feel informed and empathetically connected…” — JP Saxe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxiety-keeping/jp-saxe/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxiety-keeping/jp-saxe/", "name": "Anxiety Keeping Quotes by JP Saxe", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxiety-keeping/jp-saxe/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/jp-saxe-17478_anxiety_i-want-to-be-watching-and-reading-enough_1876745.jpg" }, "description": "1 Anxiety Keeping quotes by JP Saxe. 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