Rory O'Malley Quotes

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

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

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

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've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

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

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

When I talk about what I'm feeling, I can get outside of it and analyze it. I think that process, especially on 'Sprained Ankle,' happened after it was recorded. All of those songs are just documentations of how I felt at that time. I was writing them because I needed to.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

I never thought, 'I'm going to learn how to be funny now!,' and I'm still surprised when other people think I'm funny. I just learned to make jokes as a way of moving through the world. It helps me deal with all sorts of discomfort and boredom.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

In the past, I tried to put on a brave face and smile after a defeat, but then it would backfire in training, and I'd get frustrated. Now I just embrace it, let it out, and then, two days later, I'm back in training and ready for the next game.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.