Sam Smith Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

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

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.

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

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

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

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

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

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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 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.