Arca Quotes

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.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

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

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

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

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

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

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

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

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.

Ain't nothing like a good cry.