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

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

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

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

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

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

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.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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.

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

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

All you need is love.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

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

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

I have good days and bad days.

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.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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.

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.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.