Jeff Tweedy Quotes

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

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

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.

I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

In the immediate aftermath of the separation I just wrote and wrote and wrote. And wrote and wrote and wrote. Thank God I had that as an outlet.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.