Lord Byron Quotes

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I write because I can’t sleep.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

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.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

I used to love writing in my journal.

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

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

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

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

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.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.