Quotes About Emotion

'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.

My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years old and hearing that.

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

I love Future. 'Turn on the Lights' is the best song ever. You can cry to it. You can relate to it.

Love isn't a switch you can turn on and off. You just can't get rid of it, regardless of the circumstances, if you truly love someone.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

I suddenly turn into the cutest girl ever when I get a boyfriend.

Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

I always had a tremendous amount of rage about the business, and I thought turning that into comedy was healthy.

All the characters I've played so far mean a lot to me, but I think Young-hee of After My Death' was a real turning point for me as an actor.

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.