Therapeutic Benefit Quotes

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

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.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

Music is my therapy.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

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.

Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Art saved my life.