“I can hear your heartbreak, I can hear the screams within your head, I can feel your heart shed, every time you let someone in…”
-Hennessy Echemendia
Journal by Passion
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“The healthier I got, the less depressed I got. The healthier I got, the less anxiety I felt.”—Malik Yusef
“Those small moments really go a long way…Just a little bit of sunlight in the darkest room make the biggest difference.”—RL Huggar
“Even though it looks like surrendering, even if it looks like giving up, this is strength, this is taking everything she has within her and getting up.” —Destiny Storm
“If I did not have that failure in that moment, my choice would have been I might not have my mom.” —Anthony Russo
“They are not normal, therefore, they do not seek settled behavior and settled structures. They know that things can shift and change at any time, and they’ll just reinvent.” —Roman Wyden
“It’s not cause I understand him. It’s cause I forgave him.” —Ricardo Zulueta
“We’re only part of this. We’re not the ones who made it. So we need to have an attitude of gratitude that we even exist.”—Buddha Bomb
“I felt like I was being pulled apart, very, very, very much. And there were instances where it got so much that I did feel like maybe if I didn’t exist, then maybe this wouldn’t be happening.” — Isaac Tapia
“Art transcends stigma.” — Sasha Marie Speer
“I felt him guiding me…His death guided me into what is now my dharma to this world…” — Julia Grace
“He was in that denial. And oftentimes, when you live in that denial, then you can’t get it out.” — Michelle Jewsbury
“There was a relationship, a friendship, that I was in that was really affecting me mentally, emotionally, and draining me and making me not like myself very much….” — Brooklynn Rae
“There’s FM, there’s AM, and then there’s the channels that are off-shore. What do you want to be? And you have that choice…” — Dean Fidelman
“I don’t push anything on them quickly.” — Lauri Burns
“There was a void that has been filled that I was not aware of.” — Nahko BearThere was a void that has been filled that I was not aware of
“Let yourself hurt, and then when it’s time to stop hurting, let yourself move into another phase.” — Elsa Kennedy
“He was the kind of person who wouldn’t hurt a fly….so it was shocking to learn that aspect of him.” — Dr. Sarah Neudstadter
“It gets better. No matter how hard things get, and no matter how dark you life might seem…there is always at least one person that wants you.” — Lizet Vera
“Those days were so free, could I just have one more?” — Marlaina Smith“Those days were so free. Could I have just one more?”
“I was so lost that I had no idea who I was…I started journaling to see what was really going on and give myself direction. ” — Kandee Lewis
“Writing for me is always about truth, and I didn’t want to tell my truth.” — Taura Stinson
“People think of happiness and sadness as two different ends of the spectrum…but they actually have the same magnitude, which means that you can listen to a song that is so sad that it actually makes you feel happy.” — Weston Smith- “Whether the alcohol controlled that or didn’t control that, whether he had a say, or didn’t have a say, it’s not really my place to say. Those were his choices.”- Peter HarperSeptember 21, 2018“Whether the alcohol controlled that or didn’t control that, whether he had a say, or didn’t have a say, it’s not really my place to say. Those were his choices.”- Peter Harper
“Your art is the master. You need to be the student.” — Random Rab
“The amount of pain we can take is pretty extreme.” — Rajiv Jain
“Society keeps repeating itself, history keeps repeating itself, ’cause we haven’t learned the basic lesson of respect, love, equality, so society will keep doing it so people will always get shitted on.” — Ras Kass
“I think a lot of stuff in life starts from suffering, it starts from pain and loss, and for me that was very true. So, as a kid, I found that life was really empty” — Rohan Dixit
“…digging into what truly inspires me to get up everyday.” — Rory O’Connell
“When two people are in love with each other they see no flaws in the other person so they have this perfection, but it’s also about the imperfection of perfection and acceptance in that regard.” — Ryan Hurtgen
“For me, I can only write when I’m in that spot. When I’m in that not-so-sure space.” — Sam Woolf
“Does everyone else feel this heartache for the exploitation of children?” — Samuel J
“The past very much affects the present even in your healing stages, and young ladies even back then still feel like they are not enough. Young men still feel like the world is against them.” — Tanisha Webb
“I realize that I’m dealing right now, with the reality, which is the pain and what I went through. All of my service, which I was trying to push away, came back. Basically, the art made me go back.” — Tomer Peretz
“It affects the lives of the people they are leaving…” — Ty Bates
“…Not so much make it, but it was more like a release….” — Matt Shmitty
“Get inspired by other artists. But [have] your own style as well. Be creative. Build your own world.” — Matt Sassari
“…you want to be vulnerable to some people…for them to get to know you…” — Kera Armendariz
“Usually when people take their life they’re thinking they’re going to make it better for everyone around them…But really it’s a burden to all the people them to carry the weight of that relationship, of what could’ve been…” — Kelly McCree
“That stuff started hitting me. It drove me to create the record with my band.” — Keith Murray
“Because the music came from a place of such vulnerability, because the music was so important to me, and it had helped me deal with so many issues in my life, it was a personal matter….” — Justin Taylor Phillips
“The depth is important because it is something that everybody goes through. It’s a thing that is very human, and to ignore it and to try and bypass it to make yourself the greatest you can be is very dangerous…” — Ashi Dala of HOTTMT
“I was so blessed to have such a great, horrible experience. Without that horrible experience I would not be here. I would not love them so much.” — Hennessy Echemendia
“Do what your heart tells you, man. You know if I didn’t have art, I wouldn’t be doing anything else right now…if I didn’t have art, I might not be here.” — Hayden Maltese
“We are, in this culture, being abused. And we don’t know it. We are slowly allowing atrocity to encroach… allowing darkness to creep its way in. Our pupils are dilating more and more so it seems like it’s still light out. But it’s getting darker, and we’re just sitting there. We need to move to the sun.” — Gabe Otto
“Real power is the ability to change something or someone, but the greatest power is indeed love.” — Drue Metz
“Find the most disconnected person and preform to them. You can’t fake it, so to speak.” — Danny Thurmer
“If it’s true love, it’s never going to stop, but you will have ups and downs.” — Imani Scott
“Do not let your circumstances confine you and define you, but let your circumstances REFINE you!” — Gabe Cordell
“My whole mantra…’be who you wanna be, do not let anyone else influence that’…” — Jane Holiday
“It was harder to lose a guy to suicide than to lose someone in combat.” — Donny O’Malley“It was harder to lose a guy to suicide than to lose someone in combat.”
“There’s always gonna be a light at the end of the tunnel. That even if it seems bleak in this moment, the next moment could bring something entirely different, and joyful and happy…never forget to value yourself, never forget to trust yourself and your instincts…” — Chelsea Williams
“If I don’t love myself, then it’s torture to be here.” — Colin James
“Going to Agape was more than just I’m going to serve God or praise the Creator, if you will. It turned more into how can I help people? How can I fellowship? How can I give my service freely in love?” — ‘DJ Qwess Coast’ Alfred Torregano“When you change your mind, you change your world.”
“You trust yourself. How do you gain trust? You have to spend time alone…you have to love what you see alone.” — Cheri Rae
“I am on a mission to love myself fully… to be the best version of myself… It’s difficult when I am the only one telling me that.” — Colin James“I am on a mission to love myself fully...
“I saw Tool in ’01. I’ll never forget. It was a day a lot of things shifted for me. I went through a deep deep spiritual experience. I cried for about two hours during their show.” — Andrea Sáenz“What drives me the most is the idea of waking up one day and saying, ‘I could have done that’. I should have done that.’”
“Take responsibility for everything you have created in this reality.” — Brent Allen Spears, aka ‘Shrine’Take responsibility for everything you have created in this reality.”
“It started to build up, and it got to a very dark place…And that phone call, I tell him to this day, that phone call probably saved my life.” — Matt Milano
“…sending your men out there and knowing that they might not come back, that’s a very heavy burden, a very big load to carry…” — Mike Owen
“And then that moment of catharsis when I lived in the moment of the song…whatever had its hold on me…I was starting to break free.” — Pete Kronowitt
“There you are, shining star from afar. Can you find me in the dark? There’s a spark within my heart. If you look closer, you will find that your love is all I desire. Your love started a fire, and it’s inside me.” — Maya McClean
“It was either laugh or be really upset … I need to just go the laughter route. It was almost maniacal, but it was better than being angry.“ — Indy Rishi
“Give me the hard shit, give me shit that’s going to break me open because I needed to learn.” — Bryan Reeves
“Love is more than an emotion…it’s a passion for life.” — Lauren Rhodes
“Music kept me from jumping off the cliff. I get up and write whatever sorrows, issues, concerns are. [Writing] has been my saving grace throughout my entire love life, love seasons. And if you don’t write songs and music, I suggest you get a journal, make up a poem or something cause it will save your life.” — Che Best
“If you’re going through anything really hard, endure. There’s something wonderful waiting for you.” — Jelveh Pedraza
“The first solo show that I wrote was about love’s loss, bad sex and romance stories so I just took the experience of something and the things that were heartbreaking at the time, and tried to find humor in them…” — Paul Case
“Why did you have to die? Why did you leave me alone?” — Danny Brook“You can call him anytime. He would drop what he was doing and help you out.”
“I wanted to get into hospice music therapy so that I can be the soundtrack of someone else’s transformation from life to after life…” — Tim Ringgold
“But the thing that surprised me most as time has passed is that we’re surprised that people die. We’re surprised that things end because everything ends.” — Moby
“First of all, God is love and love is good… I still do believe in love. I also do believe that in order to experience love, you have to be open. You can’t be closed off. You can’t be afraid.” — Antonique Smith
“I saw how nature worked. Nature is infinite. Everything is reciprocal, everything evolves together, everything cross-pollinates. Nothing is stagnant. If you’re stagnant in nature, you die.” — Martin Dunkerton
“When it comes on, there’s no way to escape it. It’s just like a train that’s just flying at you, and you just freeze and then you just get picked up, get overwhelmed, and just suffer through it.” — Nathanael Wolfe
“By taking responsibility, I see that whatever bad things happened in my life…I was apart of. I did it to myself…[so I] allow myself to grieve, after that, I need to forgive and love myself.” — Jessica Wen
“I’m not looking for love tonight. I’m looking someone who can take you off my mind. So give me Jack and Coke and someone I don’t know. Cause I need to numb everything inside.” — Julia Price
“Many people are afraid to pivot, and it requires living more freely and unafraid, and that’s something that I truly believe in, even though it scares the shit out of me..” — Michelle Fitzgerald
“I realize that I am fully living my dreams. It just didn’t look like how I thought it would when I was five years old, so it’s letting go of what my life should look like for me to be “successful.” — Larisa Gosla
“I poured my pain into my work and I poured my love into my work, cause for me, the most painful thing when a relationship ends abruptly is that what do you do with all that love that you’re still holding?” — Dream Rockwell
“A lot of the first work that I made after my father passed was actually quite messy and angry and tormented…” — Mick Lorusso
“…I was in bed all the time, I didn’t want to spend time with anybody else…It was a constant battle with myself, with wanting to have that love back.” — Jessica Dinh
“She’s completely crazy. This woman. But that’s what a woman thinks when she feels that the man she loves is going away. She wants him, and she can’t bear the fact that he stopped loving her.” — Cecille Guillemain
“…Calling friends up, my brothers, you know, old mentors I looked up to, telling them how I felt and [asking them] what they went through to go through it…you just got to stay busy. I danced, did yoga, worked out, wrote music, wrote songs….” — Kiyoshi Shelton
“Teary-eyed but still working through the pain and the loss and the tears…the empty loneliness of not having my best friend again…” — David Shark
“My heart was being ripped out of my chest. I just knew that he was with somebody else. Something had happened, and sure enough, when he came back from his trip, he told me that he had fallen in love.” — Krista Richards
“Butterflies represent a transformation of human soul…Every time I’m doing a butterfly I’m actually transforming somebody’s soul…butterflies are free. They’re delicate.” — Marisabel Bazan
“My Music, the drive has come from not having, or losing. Wanting to strive for something better, wanting to thrive instead of just survive….having so many negative things happen, but being able to keep such a positive outlook.” — Nick Terranova, aka ‘Starkillers’
“I know what it is to suffer and I know what it is to love, and at the end of the day, I’m so grateful for everything because there is love.” — Larisa Gosla
“I never planned on becoming a poet…If I wasn’t blessed with my story, I wouldn’t be who I am today.” — kweisi gharreau
“This is how you fall in love with a killer, painkiller. And it’s so good, now. But it won’t be forever, break me down, and then you make it better. This is how you fall in love with a killer.” — Julia Price
“‘You’re trying to run away from yourself? No girl. You can’t run anymore. It’s you, yourself, and I. You’re alone. You can’t go anywhere…'” — Josie Bashout
“When you are broken, you have to go out and do something, and that was the healing process.” — Mel Novak