Ronnie Wood Quotes

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

If you're making something tangible, whether it's clothing, a song, a piece of art... when you create something that's outside of yourself you take a bit of the pain and it's released, you let it out a little bit. That's my Oprah Winfrey moment.

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.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

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.

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

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

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.