If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Football is a sad game.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Love is the one wild card.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

It’s not possible to stop love.

I’m an emotional person.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Of course I get hurt.