Kim Petras Quotes

Music is my release.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

Music is my release.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

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

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

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

Music was my one way to vent.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

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.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

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.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.