Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I'll keep venting my anger through my films.

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

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

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.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

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

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

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

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

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 like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.