Loretta Lynn Quotes

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

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.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

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

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I don't really know how to articulate it to people directly - my friends, my family, or my girlfriend - then I'll write a song about it because I know I can articulate it that way.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I live vicariously through my songs.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

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.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

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

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.