Michelle Shocked Quotes

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

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.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

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

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.