Sam Walton Quotes

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.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

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'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Music was my one way to vent.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.