Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

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 don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

I started writing to save my life.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

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.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

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

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.