Gao Xingjian Quotes

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

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.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Writing is the supreme solace.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

I write because I can’t sleep.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.