Brittany Howard Quotes

Music can get me through anything.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

Music is a saviour for me.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

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

Music is an escape for me.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.

I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

I think music - it sounds cliche, but music can be very healing.

Music is a wonderful way of healing and helping get through things.

I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.