Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

I don't think I've grown up easily.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

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

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

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

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as I would've been at 12 or 13 years old.