Quotes About Emotion

Fear seems like it's this physical thing - some monster - but it's just energy.

You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters... It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.

I'd been to Mosul and back and forth to Iraq and Latin America, and it was all quite harrowing... and I felt like I wanted a month or two of total escapism.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.

I enjoy creating lamps because lighting really changes my mood.

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That way, I try to get into the mood.

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Whenever I make music, I just make it depending on however I feel at that moment and what I'm getting inspiration from, so it depends - whatever, it's just my mood.

How I dress is the way I feel. If I'm wearing bright colors, I'm probably in a great mood.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

I don't just buy a dress because it's pretty - it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.

When I wake up, I put on what I'm in the mood to wear.