Lola Kirke Quotes

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

When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.

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've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

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

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

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

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

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.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

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.

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

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.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

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.

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.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

When people are feeling a bunch of feelings or there's something happening within the world, a lot of people get healing through music, or a lot of people's go-to entertainment to find some answers or understand something.

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

I have also Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I wouldn't have survived that if not for music. So I think for me, music was a soothing thing and it was also a place where you could say all the stuff that you couldn't say anywhere else.