Yoko Ono Quotes

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

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Music was my one way to vent.

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.

Music is my release.

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.

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

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

Music is my release.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Music became a healer for me.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.