Quotes About Emotion

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

With 'Ed Wood,' I sobbed. With 'Frankenweenie,' I was crying. With 'Edward Scissorhands,' I always cry. There's always an incredible amount of purity, even if they look a certain way.

If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.

It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.

There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'

To think that Woody was in any way a father or stepfather to me is laughable.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

Please don't try and dramatize my relationship with Woody Allen. He was never any kind of father figure to me.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Love is a very big word.

I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.

The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.