Edward Hirsch Quotes

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

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.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

We all have our inner demons.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

I thought it would be really cool to show the world the inner life of someone like me, who doesn't have a huge personality, who deals with some personal demons and is a little bit shy and a little awkward when you first get to know me.

Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that we can find a way out of it without too much more injury to ourselves.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

Whenever a relationship doesn't go on the right path, it affects me in some form, but it hasn't spoilt anything for me.

I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.

When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood.

I can laugh at my own grief.

I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.