Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

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

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Writing gave me a life.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction. Actually keel over and die - it's unlikely. But quite quickly writing has come to feel like the only thing I really know how to do. And I go a bit stir crazy if I don't write more or less every day. But that makes writing sound like a mood-regulator, a way to regulate anxiety or depression, and it doesn't really come down to that.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my voice and getting it out there.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.