Quotes About Healing

We've always considered our music to be a healing process. It's our 'tool' to work things out with each other and try to communicate with each other and learn things. And it's good for everyone - us and our audience - to get together.

Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

Music is a healing tool.

Therapy is so personal but it can be a really amazing tool so long as you are not forced into it.

Writing songs has always been a process where I divulge a lot, just because music is a tool for me to sift through and process intense emotions. But having music be my primary occupation has changed how I interact with art.

When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

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.

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

I've rolled and torn ligaments in my ankle.

I just had surgery, cervical fusion, it's where they fuse the bones of the neck together. I had torn disks and all kinds of crazy stuff going on for 10 years straight and I had gone to about 42 different doctors.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

It took a lot for me to feel mentally stable after giving birth and, physically, my body felt torn apart.

Seeing the news on 'FOX Sports Live' of yet another baseball player on crutches always reminds me of the September night in 2005 when I tore my Achilles tendon in Toronto.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Breaking up is hard to do. It's torture.

I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'

Everyone who tortured me and kidnapped me, who imprisoned me, I have forgiven everyone. And I wish them, from the bottom of my heart, the best of lives.

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Don't be afraid to cry. Everyone needs a good cry sometimes. Sometimes I'll feel it in my throat, like, 'Today I'm going to cry about something stupid,' so just to get it out of the way, I'll watch a sad movie or something, accepting that that's totally fine and feels good.