Clairo Quotes

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.

As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

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.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

Music became a healer for me.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.