Peter Weir Quotes

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

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

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.

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.

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

If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.

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

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

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.

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.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

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.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

Music is very therapeutic and healing, and I hit it from all angles.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

Putting beauty in your life can be an amazing therapy. I love harmonies and a good melody.

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.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

We all have our daily prescription of yoga, football, religion, or whatever gets us through that day. My thing is music. It's the only thing that gives me a sense of calm and balance. It's the thing I know I'm good at.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

My way to de-stress is either listening to music or talking to my sister, Kourtney. She's going to teach me how to meditate, and that should help a lot.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.