Mark Foster Quotes

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Whatever I'm feeling, whatever I'm going through, whatever mood I'm in... If I'm feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I'm feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

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

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

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.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

I went through some stuff. And I got very depressed at times. It was like a marriage breaking up suddenly, violently, quickly. And I was just trying to figure out what happened. When we started putting this tour together, I started to feel better almost immediately. And then this there is this, there is almost no better antidote to what I"ve just been through than to do this every night.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.