Jessie J Quotes

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

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

Anger is so constructive.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

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.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.