Quotes About Emotion

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.

You know I'm never happy. I'm not happy, unless I'm miserable.

One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

I did an ABC Family movie called 'Cyberbully' a couple years ago, and it was unlike any movie I'd ever done before. I remember just reading the script and thinking, 'OK, she cries in every scene.'

Theatre is a very beautiful and interesting medium because it's a live show, unlike a film - once released, it's gone.

Non-film music is a different world together, and unlike films, usually there are no actors, actresses or other superstars to help you carry the song, they can only share and support.

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.

When I recorded 'Unlovable', I had a lump in my throat. It was moving, but I wasn't sure if people wanted me to write those type of songs.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

But not to have music would be unnatural to me.

There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion.

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.

It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.

A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something - not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That's the point of a live show - for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.