Tennessee Williams Quotes

Part of my therapy is to write.

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.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my heart being broken. I wrote about my views whether they were liberal or conservative. I wrote about everything. I wrote about my life. When I did not have paper coming in as green backs, I'd use random pieces of paper for stories. It was like, I got no money, but I have paper to write. So I wrote.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

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.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

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

In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

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

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

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.

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.

Writing is the supreme solace.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

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.