Beyonce Knowles Quotes

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

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

Part of my therapy is to write.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Acting is therapeutic.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.