Vanessa Carlton Quotes

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

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

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

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

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.