Ad-Rock Quotes

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

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.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

Music became a healer for me.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

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.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Music is an escape for me.

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

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.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

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

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 only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.