Julia Michaels Quotes

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

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

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.

If you're making something tangible, whether it's clothing, a song, a piece of art... when you create something that's outside of yourself you take a bit of the pain and it's released, you let it out a little bit. That's my Oprah Winfrey moment.

I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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

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.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

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

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

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

Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.

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.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

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

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.