Jamie xx Quotes

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

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

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

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.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

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

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

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

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

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.

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.