Beth Hart Quotes

I started writing to save my life.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice.

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

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

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

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.