Lola Kirke Quotes

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

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

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

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.

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

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

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

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

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.

I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

But me writing sad songs doesn't mean I am a sad person.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.