Raw Emotion Quotes

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you're physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just deals with the situation at hand. You get to a point where you're exhausted at the end of the day, but I quite like that.

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

Close to my heart is Muddy Waters. I love the way he sang. It was almost like a bark. It was like the bark of a dog: it's not fancy. Sometimes it's not like singing; it's like shouting.

I'm a real animal. I'm an animal.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

Music, at its very best, is dangerous.

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.