Natalie Prass Quotes

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.

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.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

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.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.