Amy Winehouse Quotes

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

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.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there.

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

Part of my therapy is to write.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

I do find acting cathartic.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.