Lesley Garrett Quotes

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 can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

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

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.

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

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.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

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 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.

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

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

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

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

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 sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

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

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

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.

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

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

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.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.