Daring Quote by Carrie Brownstein

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out…

— Mary Karr

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

— Anonymous

“...one song, one note that heals the guilty chaos of our days, making sense of our loneliness, our perjured feelings, our sickness and our…

— Spencer Gordon

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

— Jo Stafford

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we…

— Drew Barrymore

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

— Merle Haggard

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then…

— Tori Amos

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out…

— Tim Burton

I'm tortured because I care.

— Shawn Mendes

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really…

— George Clooney

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If…

— Ben Folds