Joshua Prager Quotes

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

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

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

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

I started writing to save my life.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

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.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I love to cry. It's great.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.