Jessi Colter Quotes

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

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 found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Music is my release.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

Music is my release.

Music gives me a focused purpose. It saves my life every day.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

I need to write to be happy.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

Music is an escape for me.

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 was my one way to vent.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

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

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

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

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

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

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