Chester Bennington Quotes

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

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

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

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.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

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.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I started writing to save my life.

Music was my one way to vent.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

People always say time heals. Time doesn't necessarily heal anything. It allows you to manage things. There are occasions where you feel the pain as if it just happened, but you know that it's a fleeting moment.

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

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

I'm very sensitive - I'll cry during every movie or commercial - but when it comes to my own feelings, I don't really think about them that much unless I'm making music. Otherwise, I'm either checked out or laughing because that's how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

There are times when you might have a bad training session or a bad day, and although I would often go to a team-mate to have a chat if that were the case, it's also great to have the option of expressing your thoughts in a journal if you don't want to bother anyone.