Thought Processing Quotes

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed.

I think thoughts in my head bounce around in my skull and, if they keep bouncing around in my skull, they get worse and worse. When they come out of my mouth, they make people happy.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

For me, writing is just processing.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.