Quotes About Emotion

I think I definitely get my soft side from my mother.

In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of fundamentalism.

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.

There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It's a little bit of my softer side of me, comin' out of left field a little bit.

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Though it sold very well, I hated 'The Edge.'

I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's, like, hard to sell a baby.

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

I can't even tell anyone how it feels when I'm acting, I don't mean to say that I don't have to try. But there's something in my heart that explodes, and I feel like I understand. When I'm acting, I feel like so in control and so centered. This is something that I solely get from acting and music. It's like love itself.

My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.

I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.

I always respected country music for its narrative and how it's so solid, you can get the picture in your mind.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to do free-form slide solo. It's the best thing I've ever done - because I wasn't thinking about it.

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

I get to play what I'm feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum kit in Black Sabbath.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.

When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.