Sharon Van Etten Quotes

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

I started writing to save my life.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.

People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.