Conan O'Brien Quotes

Part of my therapy is to write.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!

Music became a healer for me.

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.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I do find acting cathartic.

Acting is always therapeutic.

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.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

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.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

On the song 'Buried Alive,' it's almost like the instrumental is a therapist.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.

You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends.

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.