Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.
Music is my release.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.
I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.
I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.
I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.
I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.
Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.
Writing is the supreme solace.
I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist.