Brody Armstrong Quotes

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.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

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.

And what I love about music and art in general is that you can take something so negative or positive - any emotion, no matter how sad or happy - and turn it into art.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

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.

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.

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

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

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.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

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

I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me. I'm not an out-of-control person, but I can access in my work very easily a feeling of real fury. Thank goodness I've channeled it into my work, I guess.

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

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 don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

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 didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.