David Longstreth Quotes

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.

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

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

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

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

Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

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

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

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

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

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.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.