Quotes About Emotion

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.

Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

Sad stories have no takers.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.

Sometimes when you're creating something, it takes on a life of its own, and you can be surprised at how sad or dramatic it might get.

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I read it in college as an assignment. I didn't think about it at the time. But when I heard there was a 'The Handmaid's Tale' pilot, I freaked out.

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.

This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story can involve very talented actors, but we are not invested emotionally in whether they end up together.

To stand out, I just use my talents. I rap, and I sing as well. With that being said, people kind of know me for bringing that emotion in music.

My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. For instance, 'Phantom Of The Opera,' in truth, scared the crap out of me, but I wasn't going to walk away and say, 'I didn't do that because I didn't believe in myself.'

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.