I learned today that all those great artists that made money making music that is about their pain, didn't make money off their anger. They made money by learning how to harness their emotions into a healthy outlet that reached other people.
For so long I thought I had to be angry to write good music or be inspired to make something extraordinary. But it's not about being angry, it's about allowing yourself to feel emotions and putting them into outlets of expression, like music, rather than bottling them up and trying to write something just for the sake of something to sound cool.
I think I will be able to control my writing and composing abilities a lot better with that in mind.
