Spike Milligan Quotes

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

I need to write to be happy.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

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 is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

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 don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

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

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

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 feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

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