Khalid Quotes

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

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 make music... and it helps me figure out life.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

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.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

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

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

I've been acting since I was a little kid. It was my escape from my day which had to do with a father leaving, and a mother not being home, and her struggling and doing her best and all that. But it wasn't fun. I would go into theater class. If she were a stay-at-home mom, I wouldn't have that discomfort inside that kept me pushing.

I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .