Sharon Van Etten Quotes

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.

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

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.

I feel like sometimes we just need to speak more about what we're going through.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

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.

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

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

I used to love writing in my journal.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

I'm a very open person. I like to talk a lot about what I'm going through. It's how I cope with things.

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

I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can't find another person, get a journal. I didn't say make a video on Snapchat. It's for you, not anyone else.

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

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

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it's cathartic.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.