Leonard Cohen Quotes

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

Music became a healer for me.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

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

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

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.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Music can get me through anything.

We all have movies for times in our lives when we really need something.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have.

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.