I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.

— The D.O.C

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music.

— Ozzy Osbourne

There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“As far as we were concerned, we were just a blues band that had decided to write some scary music.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out,…

— Florence Welch

Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall…

— Kathleen Parker

“Only after you've done the exorcism, then you'll understand that ghost's also a species.”

— Toba Beta

“This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism.”

— Jerry Stahl

Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up…

— Liam Neeson

Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

— Keanu Reeves

I had a full exorcism performed on me from an archbishop.

— Zak Bagans

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism'…

— Caleb Landry Jones