Bea Miller Quotes

I started writing to save my life.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

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

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.