John Coltrane Quotes

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

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

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I think there's no greater healing power than music.

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

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 found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

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

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

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.

Playing my drums is therapy.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

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

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

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