Quotes About Emotion

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.

When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

Style really comes down to what makes you feel good.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

My style is how I feel about the moment.

My style reflects my mood, the place I'm in, and the place I'm going to.

We were always authentic when it came to our style. From when we started to the height of our fame, we've always been consistent in our look because how we dressed was a result of how we felt. We weren't playing dress-up.

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out and connect with you. Great songs connect beyond genre and style.

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

I take in a lot of different styles when I listen to music, but when I'm actually writing a song it comes from a very stripped back place that focuses on melody and soaring choruses that lift-off.

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

You can understand so much about how consumers perceive a brand by analyzing their spontaneous, subconscious responses.

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.