Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

All my songs are where I am.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

My songs are just little letters to me.

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.