Jacob Whitesides Quotes

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.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

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

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Music stops you from thinking.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

Any doctor will tell you a great treatment for depression is exercise, physical exertion, that it really ups the dopamine in your brain, so that's what a show is. I play a show and that's a high for me; I can ride that.

I'm constantly writing, maybe a little more than other guys in the band. I find it a very therapeutic thing to do on the road, where you're estranged from your hobbies.

People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

Music has always kind of been an escape for me.

I use the studio as my drug. That's where I relieve everything at - the studio.