Sevyn Streeter Quotes

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

I feel like I've figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my music and the way of performance be healing and be helpful.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

It feels good, pouring your heart out over something, and then all of a sudden people are getting inspired.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

When I make my music, I try and speak to me. I try to go back and hear it, so my music gets me through the times, you know what I'm saying?

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

Music is my release.