Jordin Sparks Quotes

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

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

Acting is therapeutic.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

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

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

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.

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

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

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.

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.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.