Quotes About Emotional

Being abandoned by my mother gives me a sense of insecurity that I will never recover from. I have to try and recreate that balance by trying to create a sense of self-worth. And yes, being on stage is a part of that.

'Rectify' has been beautiful and emotional but grueling. In a beautiful way, in the right way.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music - and it's made me a more empathetic person.

I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

If you keep hanging on to something, you've got an opportunity to keep getting hurt by it.

With 'Hannibal,' it's almost like the music is part of the furniture, so as a character goes from one room to another room, or we go from one place to another or whatever, the music is just going with it the whole time the same way that the audience is sort of tracking it and following along.

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.

I think that there's something that goes on for Robert Langdon where he has a hard time connecting with people.

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.

The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.

Music should never be harmless.

I mean I could not trust men again. I hated men. I hated humanity. How on earth can people sell each other?

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

For me just having a baby was incredible.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

I've worked really hard to hurt people in my life so I admire people who heal people.

Let's let people heal.

I find that I'm much more of a healer than I am anything else.

The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.