Nana Mouskouri Quotes

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

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.

My Bandcamp had a lot of bad and good music, but I relied on that to sort my feelings. My sadness will always be there, even in the happiness.

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

I would be a very sad person if I didn't have dance in my life. However I can, whatever I do, I just feel a lot of joy. Even if I am sad, if you take me to a rehearsal hall, I will automatically become happy.

One does not always sing out of happiness.

I need to write to be happy.

I love to cry. It's great.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

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

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.