Alain de Botton Quotes

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

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

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

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

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

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

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

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

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

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

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

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

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 don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.