Freya Ridings Quotes

Music became a healer for me.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

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

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

Music is my release.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.

Music is my release.

I usually sing when I'm by myself.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.