Albert Hammond Jr. Quotes

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.

I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.

I don't cry that much, and if I do, it's for a really big thing.