Quotes About Feelings

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

I'm very emotional and vulnerable.

Being vulnerable was difficult for me at first because I've said things in my songs about how I felt that I never told anybody.

I think it's important to be vulnerable and to pay attention to your emotions.

Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

If you don't allow your aggression or negative feelings to be expressed in your waking life, then it migrates into your subconscious.

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by 'The Luckiest' by Ben Folds.

Music says the things that people don't say or are afraid to say, and that's the best part about it for me.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

I just didn't feel like there would be a lot of opportunities for me in Birmingham.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

American blues can make you sad.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

As you begin to develop real relationships and bonds it gets harder because sometimes you say things to people and hurt their feelings and you really care about them.

I'm not bothered how people feel. This is a real tough sport.

I don't think it serves anyone to bottle emotions.

I used to bottle things up.