Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

I love to cry. It's great.

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

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.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

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

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

For me, writing is just processing.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken - or written.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.

I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark, or painful, or too embarrassing, or whatever. I feel like you might as well get it down for yourself. It can't do anything but help you get to where you want to be by recognizing the thoughts that you're having.