Quotes About Emotion

So much of grandeur and richness in songs unnerve me.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

My grandfather and I were very close.

That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

My lady, my mama, my grandma, everybody think I'm crazy.

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother.

Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'

I can't for the life of me - and I've tried - love someone like I love my grandmother, my sister and my mom.

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.

I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

I don't know what it is to feel very British, but I feel that it's home, so I'm very happy to represent Great Britain.

I love Liverpool - it's a great city to live in.

I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.

Music means a great deal to me.

It takes a great deal of courage to love.

To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.

I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'