Ray LaMontagne Quotes

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

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

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

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

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.