David A. Stewart Quotes

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

Kid Cudi has saved lives. He saved my life.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

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

In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.

Music saved me from a really dark road.

Making music has saved my life.

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

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

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

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

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 wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.