Santigold Quotes

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

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

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 really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

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.

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

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

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

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

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

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

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.

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

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

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

Writing is very cathartic for me.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

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.

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