James Taylor Quotes

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

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

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

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

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

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

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

For me, writing is just processing.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

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

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

I love to cry. It's great.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.