Capturing Feelings Quotes

My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

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

I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you're exposing yourself, and you're expressing your emotions, and those are the key attributes to a big record that really connect with people.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

Whenever I'm obsessed about anything, that becomes the subject of a song.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

I'm very personal with my music, and it takes a piece of your heart away every time you record that in the studio. So you only have so many pieces of your heart to give away.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.