Evangeline Lilly Quotes

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

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

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

At least I can write.

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.

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

I started writing to save my life.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

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

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.