Alice Merton Quotes

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

Part of my therapy is to write.

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 had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

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 write music, really, to make myself feel better.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

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

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.