Taylor Swift Quotes

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

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.

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.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

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

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 have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

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.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

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 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 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.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.