Quotes About Emotion

Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

The film that I go on about and drive people mad is 'Don't Look Now' with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It's the best married couple acting you have ever seen in any film, the way they are together.

Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.

I just wanted to jump out of my body sometimes and be someone else.

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

So I usually call the songs when I get on the stage, according to what the crowd feels like to me. I can jump from 50 years ago to right up to now, and people will be familiar with the songs. And since we never do them the same way, it's a new experience.

Jumping off the cage at the Garden, you couldn't even hear yourself. I loved it so much. Things like that just stick in your heart.

I remember my dad taking me to stand on the Kop at Wrexham to watch Dixie McNeil and Joey Jones, and jumping into his arms when they scored.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.

John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.

As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?

To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out of the action. It's got to talk about the characters, not the story: it has to augment that action.

I'm not going to blurt out my whole life on the Internet and just be all crazy emotional. I'm not that type of person, but it's in my music.

If I feel like you've disrespected me, you might as well just be dead to me.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I'm kind of an animated person. I was given this really big blessing that my voice just kind of carries the emotion.

I'm just looking for that one song that I know everybody's going to be like, 'Damn, that's a good song.'

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.