Kiiara Quotes

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

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

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

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 write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

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

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

I took a few months off after my senior year was over, and I prayed and tried to figure out what was my plan and my purpose. That's how I started writing songs and playing guitar just to get my feelings out.

I think there's something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it's what you've written or whether it's someone else's song. I find both satisfying in different ways.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.