Oliver Herford Quotes

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

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

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

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 personally don't know what nerves are. I don't get scared when I'm going to play music. But I think something, maybe my fears, are buried into my songs. Because I'm singing them.

Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.

I miss the emotion of singing. There is something about it which means you can express emotions to people without actually talking to them.

Music has been my way of expressing what I've been feeling.