Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I dote on his very absence.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

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.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

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.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

It’s not possible to stop love.

I have no human feelings.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.