Katey Sagal Quotes

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.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

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

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

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.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

Music became a healer for me.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

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

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.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into 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.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

Music stops you from thinking.

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

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.