Panos Cosmatos Quotes

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

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

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

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

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

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

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

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.

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.

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

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.

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

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.