My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.
I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.
I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.
I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.
When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.
Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.
I use music like therapy sessions.
Writing is the thing that props me up.
Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.
It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.
I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.
There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.
I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing and playing ball. It doesn't make the pain go away, but what else can I do?
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.
I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.
I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.
My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
Everybody reacts to very difficult circumstances differently, we have to accept that.
