Kelela Quotes

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

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

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

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

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

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

I started writing to save my life.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

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.

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

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.