Jill Hennessy Quotes

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

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.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

At my lowest point, I found cooking.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

Part of my therapy is to write.

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 really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I started writing to save my life.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

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

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

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!