Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

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.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

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.

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

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.

I know that Wes Craven feels watching horror films does have a psychological effect, in a good way. It is very cathartic. He might be right about that.

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

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

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.