Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.