Patti Page Quotes

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

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'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

Music became a healer for me.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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.

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.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

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.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

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.

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.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

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

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.