Quotes About Emotions

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

The bottom line is music, for me, is an exhaust port for life, and if I have a chaotic year, then I'm gonna write a chaotic record, and that's what happened with 'Ziltoid,' with 'Z2.'

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

I love Portland and I have so much history there and I knew it like the back of my hand, so the decision to leave was never easy.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

As a dancer, when you're moving, you're listening to music so much because you're trying to portray it with your body. You're dissecting a song way more than anyone would actually think you are.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story.

I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

I love movie musicals because I think there is an amount of emotional honesty that's needed to portray someone who feels so deeply that all they can do is break into song.

I think an actor should portray all kinds of emotions in films.