Keith Sweat Quotes

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

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.

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

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric, and I'm so grateful for that in moments of pain or of suffering - that I have this means of channeling it; it's really amazing. My band as well - having them around and being able to jump on stage and bond together and share that energy is really uplifting as well.

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

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

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.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

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

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 sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

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.

Music is my release.

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

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.