Yoko Ono Quotes

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

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 just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

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.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

I started writing to save my life.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

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 tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

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 start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

But me writing sad songs doesn't mean I am a sad person.

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

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.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

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

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

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.