Quotes About Therapy

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

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.

I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

It was either therapy or die.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.