Mary Lambert Quotes

I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

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

I started writing to save my life.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

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

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

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