Quotes About Emotion

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

Things that make me angry and sad, I cannot hide. It's not because I want to be a rebel; it's my instinct. When something touches me deeply, I really have to react.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

Romantic films have a greater recall value.

Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.

I'm sure that in my last birth, I lived in Chennai because I feel a strong connection with the place and people - because of the music and love I receive here.

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.

Songs, a while ago, became the medium through which I process most of the information that I receive and feel. But I go back and forth about whether this is all of life or whether you're missing something important in living and whether or not, as a humanist, you're abnegating a certain responsibility if this - this art - is just where you are.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood. The love that I received from people was everything, and it still is everything for me.

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

I am overwhelmed with the love I have been receiving.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!

The audience will always be receptive to good music if they are provided that.