Kerry King Quotes

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

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 found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.

I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet.

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

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.

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.

If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can call. They'll listen to me wallow for a minute and then be like, 'Okay, let's stop. Everything's great. Let's figure out how to fix whatever's bothering you.'

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

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 writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Music was my one way to vent.

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

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