Gail Porter Quotes

Music became a healer for me.

I love to cry. It's great.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'