Quotes about Musical Therapy

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

What I go through in my life, I tend to put it in my music. I always say the things that hurt me the most and that matter to me the most. I can't hold it in, man. It's like therapy.

Whether good or bad things happen, music allows you to separate yourself from reality a bit.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.

Choir singing's a wonderful thing for what ails you. There's a lot of meaning in a hymn if you think about it when you're singing it.

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.

The power of music is a wonderful thing. It can make us happy, make us cry. It can make us forget and make us remember.

I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.

Music became a healer for me.

I've learned that music is such a healer.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

I think music - it sounds cliche, but music can be very healing.

I think music is the highest form of healing.

I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time.

Music became a healer for me.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.