I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to you, whether it's a sad song or a gangster song, whatever relates to you the most in that moment, it can literally get you through the day.
I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.
I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.
But this too is true: stories can save us.
When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me
Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
Music can get me through anything.
Kid Cudi has saved lives. He saved my life.
Rock'n'roll saved my soul.
Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.
I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.
love is the only thing we have to save us
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
My kids are my salvation.... It's a delight to walk in and get charged by a five-year-old and a two-year-old. That'll make you forget the darkness.
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.
Running has been almost my savior.
People come up to me and tell me how they were in a dark place and our music helped them out. It's mind-blowing. It's not just 'Rock Lobster' or 'Love Shack' - there's much more there.
On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
