Mike Barnicle 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 used to love writing in my journal.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

Part of my therapy is to write.

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.

I started writing to save my life.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

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

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

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

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

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

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Acting is therapeutic.

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

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.