Juanes Quotes

Music became a healer for me.

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.

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

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 love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

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.

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

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

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

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've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

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

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.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

I love to cry. It's great.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

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.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

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.