Sarah McLachlan Quotes

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.

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Music is my release.

Music is my release.

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

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.

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

Music is catharsis for me.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Music became a healer for me.

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

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

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 have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.