Etta James Quotes

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

I love to cry. It's great.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

I'm a very emotional person.

I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.

I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

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.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

I do find acting cathartic.

Music was my one way to vent.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.