Quotes About Emotion

I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where my world is.

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'

I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Although jealousy is a strong word, who would like to see the person they love romance someone else, even onscreen?

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.

You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.

Music is a way of opening up.

I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

I love to conduct opera.