Quotes About Emotion

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

Music comes from a whole different place. It tells the story of your life and it's probably the closest thing I have to a religion.

I think dancing always took me to a different place. It was hard and it was a struggle, but it took me to the kind of place I wanted to live in. It wasn't real life.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.

It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

War affects people in different ways.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward my work.

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.