Quotes About Emotion

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

Dance is my passion, and I feel so strongly about it that just watching people dance lights up my face and makes me come alive.

Writing can flow out when I'm feeling something strongly, whether that's joy, pain, fear, desire or anything else. The challenge is actually later, in the second or third or 100th draft of the music, when it can be so easy to cover up the original sentiments by making the music more ornate or cloaked.

Laika's films aim to promote thought, feeling, and connectivity through art, inspired by our shared humanity. We're deeply gratified that the spirit of our work has resonated so strongly with audiences around the world.

I was drawn to the guitar, and still am, because it struck me as the most soulful instrument.

I think films are bigger than structure.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I was always into bluegrass as a kid. Basically, I like music that has a basic simple structure and that has a lot of emotion and feel. Bluegrass and other old time music fits the bill, as well as what became punk - they both kind of have a similar framework.

Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle.'

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

I always fight better when my opponent's angry.

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

It's more difficult for me to get into a character in the lead-up as opposed to leaving it.

I'm a happy person. Sometimes, I have to make a conscious effort to stay happy. See, my predispositions are - as opposed to what you see - I'm actually quite a sensitive person, very empathetic, very emotional... Very impulsive.

For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.

People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.