Ray Davies Quotes

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

When that music comes on, I just block everything around me out.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.

Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

My parents were going through a divorce, and I used to go spend all weekend at the movies to get away from it all. There was something about the sameness of the movies. It was a place for me to go to express my emotions, you know, and let it out.

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

When you're that age - that middle-school age, early high school - you're changing. You're going crazy. So I put all of my energy into pretending I was someone else, battling and screaming and all that stuff - casting spells and getting into a whole fantasy world. It was really healthy for me.

With music, I'm transported to a place that radiates positive frequencies and immediately eases my worries.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.