Aldis Hodge Quotes

Once I did a film like 'Verna,' which was emotionally draining, I knew I needed to do something lighter and entertaining.

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.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

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.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.

What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.

What I think you should do is imagine people in their underwear but then also imagine them crying, and that - that is truly relaxing.

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

What would it take for you to forget all your troubles? Are you willing to simply forget all your troubles today? When you remove your attention from a problem, it gets bored and moves away!

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.