Redfoo Quotes

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

I started to sing a lot more during my twenties when I was struggling with depression.

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 fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

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

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

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

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.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

I feel like, as a girl, I would have reacted or maybe been more depressed about some of the things that would have happened in my life if I didn't have music.

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

Part of my therapy is to write.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I started writing to save my life.

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

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