Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

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.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

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 don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

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.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

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.

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

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

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.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.