Soccer Mommy Quotes

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

My songs are just little letters to me.

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.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.