Jimmy Scott Quotes

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

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.

Music became a healer for me.

I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

I love to cry. It's great.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

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 for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

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.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

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

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.