Jacob Anderson Quotes

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

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 a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

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.

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

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.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

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 write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

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

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.