Brett Young Quotes

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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

I started writing to save my life.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Music was my one way to vent.

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.

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

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

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

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

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.