Karrine Steffans Quotes

Part of my therapy is to write.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

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.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

I write to give myself strength.

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.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

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 really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

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

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Music is my release.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.