Phoebe Bridgers Quotes

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.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

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 tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

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.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

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

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

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

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.

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

Writing songs has always been a process where I divulge a lot, just because music is a tool for me to sift through and process intense emotions. But having music be my primary occupation has changed how I interact with art.

No, I don't think songwriting is emotionally challenging - I feel like it's almost a way to sort through your emotions and put them out there.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

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

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

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

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!