Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

Music is my release.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Music is my release.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

If I'm super scared or sick, I'll still suck my thumb.

I don’t care if it’s dog piss. It makes me feel better.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

There's something healing about tears.

My parents were going through a divorce, and I used to go spend all weekend at the movies to get away from it all. There was something about the sameness of the movies. It was a place for me to go to express my emotions, you know, and let it out.

Ain't nothing like a good cry.

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic.

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

Music is a saviour for me.