Quotes About Emotions

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

When people say something to you, they're projecting what they actually feel inside, so you just have to wish them luck, wish them well, send them love.

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

R&B was really prominent in the '90s, and we can all admit that it kind of fell off. But my generation is more in touch with our emotions - we're not afraid to show them. We're bringing that decade back.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

I knew 'Promises,' and I knew 'Never Fall In Love Again,' only from the radio, from being a kid; and of course, that 'House is Not a Home' and 'Say A Little Prayer.'

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I promote my own self-hatred.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

I don't think actors are any more prone to depression than anyone else.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

My first proper relationship was at 16 in college.

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?