Julien Baker Quotes

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

No, I don't think songwriting is emotionally challenging - I feel like it's almost a way to sort through your emotions and put them out there.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

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

As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts, my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician, you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

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

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.

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