Hollie Cavanagh Quotes

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.

I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

Music can get me through anything.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.

Music is there to get you through life's ups and downs, good times and not so good times.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

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.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find 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.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped 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.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.