Alice Merton Quotes

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

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

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

For me, writing is just processing.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

It's really cathartic to play my songs live. I'm a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the things I never get to say to anyone.

I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.