Rick Mercer Quotes

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

I just put my anger and resentment into basketball. Even the stuff from my childhood.

Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about than anyone else. It's not like I was abused as a kid or anything. I had a pretty comfortable childhood with parents who took good care of me. But resentment exists, and some of it goes into the music. Some of it goes into physical activity.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

Music was my one way to vent.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.