Shawn Crahan Quotes

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.

Music is a wonderful way of healing and helping get through things.

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

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

I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.

Music became a healer for me.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

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

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

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

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

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

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.

I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it.