Emotional Exploration Quotes

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

I write about what I'm going through.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

Writing a poem is discovering.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

My wife is cool enough to let me write about personal things, to be a songwriter exploring the shadowy sides of love.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.