Frank Iero Quotes

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

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 think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I don't really know how to articulate it to people directly - my friends, my family, or my girlfriend - then I'll write a song about it because I know I can articulate it that way.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

Music has always been a part of my life. It's my way of expression.

I live vicariously through my songs.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

I write songs, and there is a definite need to express myself through my music.

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other way. Writting was something I had to do.

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

All my songs are where I am.