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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.

— Vanessa Carlton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

— James Taylor

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

— Krist Novoselic

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

— Tessanne Chin

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

— Rick Wright

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

— Arthur Darvill

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

— Bryan Adams

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

— Amy Lee

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

— Taylor Swift

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

— Gloria Estefan

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

— John Hodgman