Jay-Z Quotes

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

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

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

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

It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past. Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

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 think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I started writing to save my life.

Music was my one way to vent.

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.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.