Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

I started writing to save my life.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

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

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.