Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Music can be a source of escapism.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.

Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don't feel like it's irresponsible, I think sometimes you really need to take a breather.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

I really like dumb romantic comedies; that's the way I can turn my brain off and let go.

I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Music is something I can control.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

Music is really, like, my therapy. So anything that's pretty much music-involved gets your head in the game.

Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.