Lucy Dacus Quotes

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

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

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

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

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

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

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.