The Weeknd Quotes

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

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

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

Whatever I'm feeling, whatever I'm going through, whatever mood I'm in... If I'm feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I'm feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.

If I don't feel anything, I don't write music.

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.