Zoey Deutch Quotes

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

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.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

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.

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

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

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

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

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

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.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

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

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.