Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

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

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Love is trembling happiness.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Acting is happy agony.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

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.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

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

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.