David Draiman Quotes

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

Music was my one way to vent.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

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 think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

Composing is an emotional thing.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

I live vicariously through my songs.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

You always feel better when you sing. Music touches people's hearts. You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity, it just moves you and it will let you cry. It's worth it doing a show and when you touch a crowd and move yourself at the same

My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.