Quotes About Rawness

What we have named as anger on the surface is the violent outer response to our own inner powerlessness, a powerlessness connected to such a profound sense of rawness and care that it can find no proper outer body or identity or voice, or way of life to hold it.

revealing Jane in all her blood-soaked glory,

I feel the blood rush to my face, fell that exquisite mixture of pain and pleasure that comes from being seen when you're vulnerable.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn't quite human.

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

When a woman singles me out"—he leaned down to murmur at my ear—"it's because she wants to get fucked. She looks at the scars and tattoos and knows she'll get fucked hard.

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.

I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.

I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

I don't say sweet things and make love and all that bullshit. I like sex hard and rough, no holding back.

Like your insides are too close to the surface?

The most horrifying thing about art is its honesty

Güte ist das Feingefühl roher Seelen.

There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up--before they have a chance to put on the face they show everyone else. There's like this last hint of innocence.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.