Brittany Howard Quotes

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

The thing I love about being on stage is I can do whatever I want.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

I love playing shows. That's the time I have to really share what I am about.

I save the rage for the stage.

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.