Quotes About Catharsis

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.

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.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Music is my therapy.

Writing is my therapy.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

Psychodrama' is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

The show has become my therapy.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

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