Perfume Genius Quotes

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

Music is my release.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Music is my release.

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.