But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.