Tyler Joseph Quotes

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

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

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.

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

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

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

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

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 think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

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

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

Whatever I'm feeling, whatever I'm going through, whatever mood I'm in... If I'm feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I'm feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

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 want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

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.

Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.