Jon Hamm Quotes

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

Music became a healer for me.

I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

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 do find acting cathartic.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

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

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.