Quotes About Emotion

I think that I always title the album towards the closing of the album. I don't know why I do that. I think it's just the vibe. As I go on, my emotions change... right before it's over I'll say, 'This is what I'm gonna call it,' and that's kinda how it happens.

Fragrance, to me, is a scent that you can call your own, have other people identify you with, and also express the vibes that you're feeling that day.

The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.

A lot of people say don't let bad vibes into the studio, but I love to. If you're having a bad day, write a song that feels like that.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

Songwriting is such a sensitive energy. It's just a vibration of frequencies.

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

At moments of acute joy or sorrow, men and women throughout history have sung or reached for musical instruments to express the inexpressible. When minds are taut with emotional entanglement, there seems to be an inner compulsive instinct to release and harness this tension through the measured vibrations in the air that we call music.

I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it.

I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.

All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition.

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

The only thing I miss is the actual fight night and the feeling of winning. I can say this with my hand on my heart, there is no greater feeling than standing victorious in the ring or in the case of my last fight, a stadium.

I'll never be able to replace the feeling of standing victorious in the ring, that's never going to happen again and I'm never going to fight again.

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

If an emotional song can be fit into a funny video, what is so bad about it?

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

Music and video games go hand in hand.

My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.