Mel Giedroyc Quotes

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

When I sing, I feel calm.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

I know for me, music was the best drug for anxiety. So that's why I wanted to write the music that I do, because it always suits my anxiety. It's a huge part of my life, and being able to make music that can help people with their anxiety is a huge thing for me.

Singing soothes me. It is something that I have always been doing and will continue to do.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

Music is really, like, my therapy. So anything that's pretty much music-involved gets your head in the game.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.

I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility. After all this mental lifestyle of the past seven or eight years, it's good to find some outlets that are not bad for my health.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.