Valerie June Quotes

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

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

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

I like to make music because I've been making music since I was 7. I can get across the things that I want to say in my music so that I don't have to say anything. I don't have to speak out about the things I believe; I can say them in my music.

I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

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

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

Composing is an emotional thing.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

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.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.