Ashley Monroe Quotes

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

It's been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I know for me, music was the best drug for anxiety. So that's why I wanted to write the music that I do, because it always suits my anxiety. It's a huge part of my life, and being able to make music that can help people with their anxiety is a huge thing for me.

I set out to make music people enjoy, but it is really cool that it is helping people get through.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.