Steven Spielberg Quotes

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.

Whenever you get nervous about anything, start dancing. You'll feel better.

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

I think sometimes it's only by talking about what's really going on that you can make it less scary.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I love to cry. It's great.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

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 love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.