Masaba Gupta Quotes

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

I save the rage for the stage.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

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.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.