Kendrick Lamar Quotes

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

Music was my one way to vent.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

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.

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

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

Music is my release.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

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

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

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 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.

Music is my release.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

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

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.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.