Music as an Outlet Quotes

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I've chronicled a time when I was 17, 18, utterly terrified that you're not gonna get anywhere with whatever you want to do. It's that fear and claustrophobia that I think comes to most people living in small towns. But I am lucky, because I just knew that music was my thing.

I have a passion for the music - not because of I wanna be in the lights or the money, but it's because it's my life. It's my heart.

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

My biggest fear was, who would I be without music?

Once I started music, it just was fulfilling in a way that everything else wasn't.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.

I don't know what I would do if it wasn't music, 'cause I'm really a one trick pony.