Nate Dogg Quotes

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

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 don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

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.

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

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.