Michelle Williams Quotes

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.

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.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

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

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

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

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

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

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

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

I love to cry. It's great.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

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.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.