Adrianne Lenker Quotes

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

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

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

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

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.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Music was my one way to vent.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Music is my release.

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.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

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

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

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

Music is my release.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.