Bishop Briggs Quotes

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

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.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.

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.