Rhys Ifans Quotes

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

You have to think with the heart.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.

To me, romantic means, um, you follow your heart more than your mind. Sometimes when you're shooting a film, you have to follow your heart.

I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.