Quotes About Emotion

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

A piece of my heart will always be with Liverpool.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you're set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as much or as little as you want.

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.