Jenny Ryan Quotes

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I started to sing a lot more during my twenties when I was struggling with depression.

I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.

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.

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

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

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

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.

Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

When I sing, I feel calm.

Music is a great healer.

Singing soothes me. It is something that I have always been doing and will continue to do.

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

Music is really, like, my therapy. So anything that's pretty much music-involved gets your head in the game.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Music became a healer for me.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

Part of my therapy is to write.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.