Janet Frame Quotes

I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.

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

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

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

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

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 start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

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.