Rick Ross Quotes

I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

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.

My songs are just little letters to me.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

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

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.

I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

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

I've always written down how I feel.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.