Tituss Burgess Quotes

When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

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.

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

Wings' was my moment to free myself from everything that was destroying me.

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

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

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

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

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.

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

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

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

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

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.