Richard Ashcroft Quotes

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

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

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

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

I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

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

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

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

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

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