Margaret Stohl Quotes

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

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.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

I love to cry. It's great.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.

I do find acting cathartic.

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.