Jewel Quotes

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

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

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

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.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

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.

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

As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

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.

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

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

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

I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

Making music has saved my life.