Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

I started writing to save my life.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

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

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

I use the studio as my drug. That's where I relieve everything at - the studio.

At my lowest point, I found cooking.

Music became a healer for me.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

Part of my therapy is to write.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

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.

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.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

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

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Escapism is survival to me.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.