Mental Catharsis Quotes

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

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.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

In my personal life, dark material is kind of an emptying out - it leaves more room for light. If I'm writing a particularly awful scene, something is released in the process.

It's hard for me to feel bad when I'm writing well.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.