Quotes About Catharsis

Part of my therapy is to write.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.

If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

Every role that one does - at least, that's what happens in my case - becomes a sort of therapy.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I've always used diaries to pour out my feelings at the end of each day, as a sort of therapy.

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.

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

It's only when I'm on stage that I really come to terms with the fact that other people are hearing my most inner, darkest thoughts.

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.

I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying

Whoever said confession was good for the soul hadn't been forced to take one after half a night's sleep.

Sometimes in the dusk he runs up and down on the sand, flinging stones at the ocean and screaming, Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! He feels better afterwards.

It's theatre, Felix protests now, in his head. The art of true illusions! Of course it deals in traumatic situations! It conjures up demons in order to exorcise them! Haven't you read the Greeks? Does the word catharsis mean anything to you?

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.