Tove Lo Quotes

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

Music was my one way to vent.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

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

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Back in the day, I was afraid to speak out. When I get music behind me, it feels like I can soothe the hurt and put it in vocals and say it to the room the way I feel it.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

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.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

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.

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

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

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 sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.