Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

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 guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

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.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

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

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Acting is therapeutic.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

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

I do find acting cathartic.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.