Vernon Davis Quotes

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

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

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

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

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.