Sam Smith Quotes

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken - or written.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

I love to cry. It's great.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.