Tom Leykis Quotes

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

You’re got to be angry—of course it helps if you can draw pretty well.

View talk radio not as entertainment but as a tool for organizing and action.

It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

There's a lot of times when I just want to scream into the void.

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at. Sometimes they weren't to a person, they were just to the universe - a bit like penning daydreams or isolated thoughts.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.