Beth Hart Quotes

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

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

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 write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.

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

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

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.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

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