Quotes About Emotion

There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real.

To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.

I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it.

I really like R&B more than rap.

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Even in a lot of hip-hop music, they tell you don't give your heart to a woman. But many of the most successful rappers are head-over-heels in love.

When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.

To me, rapping is an art.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.