Jenny Lewis Quotes

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

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

Music became a healer for me.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

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

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

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.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

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

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

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

Music was my one way to vent.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.