Jasmine Cephas Jones Quotes

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

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.

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

I started writing to save my life.

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.