J. Cole Quotes

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

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

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

I'm a fan of making music more than talking about it.

I never wanted to stop making music.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

I write songs, and there is a definite need to express myself through my music.

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.