Quotes About Emotion

I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

A day-time song like 'Word Starts Attack,' I want to make your heart blow up and make you want to punch the air with your fist. It can't be ponderous.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

I think when you love a child, it's a different kind of love. You think, 'I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up.' And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can't love any more.

Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.

There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something makes me laugh, that's it.

I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

My Pandora station is Boyz II Men.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Characters can stay with you.

I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on.