Jenny Offill Quotes

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

People are obviously capable of handling the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But I don't know how many people have had to experience them within seconds of each other.

It's either love or hate with me. People really can hate me.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

It's not that people like sad movies that make us feel like, "Oh, my god, what a bummer." We like emotionally moving experiences, where you feel like a slightly different person and you see the world a little different, after you finish. It lets you see your own life, in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good. And even though there might be sad content making this happen, the feeling that you're left with is one that is quite good, quite hopeful, clarifying and uplifting.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".