Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... 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.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

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

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.