Quotes About Emotion

I am a funny as well as an emotional person. The comedian inside me cries at times while watching a movie.

I usually get cast in more dark, dramatic things, and I would love to do something more comedic.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

I am a rootless individual, but when I land in Belize, I have that feeling of comfort that I am returning home.

I haven't found music comforting since the '80s, but it doesn't mean it's not good - it just doesn't work for me. It's shocking to me because music was my religion from the age of 11, and it's like I don't believe in my god any more.

You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'

There are some commercial artists that have number one after number one, and you go to their show, and the show's one-note. Yeah, they're all hit songs. But there's no emotion, because they're the same kind of hit songs, because they're what works at radio. That kills live shows for me.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

Anger is an emotion, not a compass.

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

I'm compelled to make music.