Susanna Kaysen Quotes

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

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

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music, a form of release to them.

Music is there to get you through life's ups and downs, good times and not so good times.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

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.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.