Patrick Ness Quotes

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

People are often very frightened of their anger. They feel it will cause them to do something harmful. If you have this fear, create a safe situation where you can express your anger, alone or with a trusted therapist or friend. Allow yourself to talk angrily, shout, hit pillows, whatever you feel like. Once you've done this in a safe environment, you will have released some of the charge, and you can look underneath the anger to find what you need to do to take better care of yourself. Like any emotion, anger is a valuable tool, teaching us who we are and how we feel.

Expressing anger is necessary.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

I can enjoy myself and express myself in the ring.

If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it was like screaming in my head. After that, I would have no feelings for you; I wouldn't be mad at you or upset because I already said it to you when I wrote it down. That's what writing did for me.

I'll keep venting my anger through my films.

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

I don't live for anyone other than myself, and I don't have a problem showing people or telling them.

I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.

I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny.

I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.