Sharon Van Etten Quotes

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.

Part of my therapy is to write.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

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

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I started writing to save my life.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

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.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

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

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

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

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

I use music like therapy sessions.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.