Connie Sellecca Quotes

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

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

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

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

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

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.

If you're making something tangible, whether it's clothing, a song, a piece of art... when you create something that's outside of yourself you take a bit of the pain and it's released, you let it out a little bit. That's my Oprah Winfrey moment.

I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

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.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

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

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

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

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

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.