Eric Carmen Quotes

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.

You are alone with everything you love.

There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.

When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

I felt like an outsider, so listening to a bunch of outsiders' music like Bjork and Patti Smith made me feel better. But at the same time, I didn't have anyone singing specifically 100% about things I could relate to.

I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.

I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison, when I stopped being angry and started to like myself and understand myself, it was OK. I still enjoy my own company sometimes.

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

Some of the best songs are love songs. They're things that we all go through, and when we're going through it, we think that we're the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you're not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan.

Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.