Richard Ashcroft Quotes

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Music saved me from a really dark road.

Putting beauty in your life can be an amazing therapy. I love harmonies and a good melody.

I could write songs on the beach, but the interior darkness, we have it all. We have it.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

Music's my medication.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

A book is a suicide postponed.

Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.