Hayley Williams Quotes

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

It's extraordinary to hear from people who are bereaved, or gone through a divorce, and they still take the time to tell me how a certain track or album helped them through tough times, or kept them sane.

Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

It's nice to know that you're worth something and music really does put that kind of light back into you. Well, it does for me anyway. I've been through some very interesting times in my life and there is certain songs that I go to and I'm like, ok, it's not that bad.

If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.

Music is there to get you through life's ups and downs, good times and not so good times.

I understand the power of music, I understand the therapeutic nature of music, the sense of community that music engenders, so I totally understand why it still goes on, choirs come together as a focal point for a community.

I am thankful to all my fans and supporters out there for the overwhelming love and support. I just hope I continue to make music that is loved by everyone.

If you take away music from me, I'll die.

Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.

We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too.