Artistic Release Quotes

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

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.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.

We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

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.

Music was my one way to vent.

When I finish a song, I never feel like I want to restrict its life. I feel that once I've done something, it's out. It's in people's ears, cars, headphones. It has its own journey.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

A-Frame was a real, pivotal moment because that's where I really got to channel a lot of emotions.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.

I live vicariously through my songs.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.