Anohni Quotes

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

I love smashing stuff.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me. I'm not an out-of-control person, but I can access in my work very easily a feeling of real fury. Thank goodness I've channeled it into my work, I guess.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

Sometimes when I'm in the car driving, I scream at the top of my lungs.

If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it was like screaming in my head. After that, I would have no feelings for you; I wouldn't be mad at you or upset because I already said it to you when I wrote it down. That's what writing did for me.

As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

Music can feel empowering, or it can give a natural emotional voice to something people can't express. This is why it's beautiful.