Jenny Ryan Quotes

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

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.

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

What I did is I bought a drum set and I listened to 80s music, and I played, and I was, like, DJ'ing, and I said, 'this is what I wanna make. This is how I'm gonna give back to the people. I'm gonna make this party music.' It pulled me out of the depression, and then I've never been depressed since.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

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 found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Music was my one way to vent.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

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 started cooking out of middle school depression.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!