Rupert Friend Quotes

Arts can save children, no matter what's going on in their homes.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.

There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

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

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

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

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.