When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.
Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.
At my lowest point, I found cooking.
I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.
I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.
About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.
Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.
I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.
In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.
I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?' but I really can't! It's my form of therapy.
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
