El-P Quotes

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

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.

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain to me. In a sense it is a transfiguration, what comes at me in my life or what I see going on in the world comes out as something beautiful or hopefully beautiful.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

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've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.