Channeling Emotions Quotes

On 'Nip/Tuck,' I was a Nazi, so basically for, like, six months. I went into this place where I was wearing a lot of black. Everyone has a dark side, and I can channel that.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.

Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

When you're young and creative, you don't know how to channel all that creative energy, so sometimes it goes to the wrong places.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

In time, you won’t need it to do that. You’ll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you’ll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that’s bouncing around and through you.” – Death

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

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

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

I'll keep venting my anger through my films.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

I always had a tremendous amount of rage about the business, and I thought turning that into comedy was healthy.

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.