Tana Mongeau Quotes

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

As an artist, what I'm looking for isn't the answers but the questions. Art saved my life, and I'm sure that it could save the lives of many people. If it's not art, find your place. But never give up.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

I started writing to save my life.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

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

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us.

I'm just like, a girl making videos, living her life.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like they are not alone, and making them feel like it is OK to be a little bit insane. That has always been sort of my credo in life.

Creating content on YouTube played a huge role in helping define myself, as making videos was and still is a creative outlet for me - a way to express myself.

I write a song for me and I sing a song for me - no one else.

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.