Quotes About Emotion

When I have a lot of emotion going on, I'll write. I write letters to my family, my boyfriend, anyone I'm trying to get my point across to. It's easier for me to express myself.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

You're able to get into somebody's brain through song.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.

Every great brand is like a great story.

I am Brazilian, and I can't offer my best performance if I'm not happy in every aspect of life.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I think any great song is difficult to write, in some aspect. It's just difficult to make somebody feel something. That is the main goal. How do you make somebody want to get up and dance? How do you make somebody feel okay after their breakup?

'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

It seems, in many ways, I am a living, breathing country song, and I know what I sing.

Music has this ability to bridge time. You can hear a song from the 1920s and still be like, 'Oh, that's it. That's the feeling I have right now.'

Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart.

I love Bright Eyes - I absolutely love him.

I do want to focus on shows that are lighter, brighter, more emotional: shows that give the audience a chance to connect and to feel.

Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.

'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.