Amy Winehouse Quotes

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

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.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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.

I write music, really, to make myself 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 wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.

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.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

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

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

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

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.