David Byrne Quotes

Music is an escape for me.

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

Music is my therapy.

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 listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Music is a wonderful way of healing and helping get through things.

Music became a healer for me.

Music was my one way to vent.

Music is my release.

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

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

Music is my release.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

Music is a great healer.

I think music - it sounds cliche, but music can be very healing.

My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

I think there's no greater healing power than music.

I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.