Dash Mihok Quotes

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

Music was my one way to vent.

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

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.