Clairo Quotes

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

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'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

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

Music was my one way to vent.

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 write music, really, to make myself feel 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!

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

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

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Music became a healer for me.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

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

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

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.