Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.