David Friedman Quotes

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

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 tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

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

I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

I'm not really that comfortable, to be honest, singing about my darkest moments.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

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

I wrote 'Love Is Dead' when I was a super-depressed teenager.

I was a mess my freshman year of college. I still had so much pain in my heart.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.