Sharon Van Etten Quotes

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

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

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

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.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

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

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.