Self-Therapy Quotes

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

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

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

We did 'The Conversation' on the Zeus network because we already are on TV and we felt like us being our own therapists could work. We tried it. We just gave it a shot since we already on blast and everybody creating their own stories about what they see. Just tried to give it a shot. Did it help? I don't know.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts online that aren't going to get me in trouble. I'll save the rest for myself." It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, "Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries." So I thought, "Well, let's see what happens when I post some of it."

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

I'm my own psychologist.

Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.