Sam Smith Quotes

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.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

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.

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

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've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

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.

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

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 make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

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

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

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

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

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.

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.

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