Russell Simmons Quotes

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

Music was my one way to vent.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Music is my release.

Music is my release.

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

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

In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

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.

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.

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 think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

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

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.