Eleanor Catton Quotes

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I'm an emotional guy.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.

When I put my first project out ages ago, I didn't want to show anyone my emotions. Now I think it's better for people to understand how I am as a person and let them relate.

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

I am a really sensitive person.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

I have had a very physical acting career, but on 'Newsroom,' it's not about physicality, but it's about presence. I get to just be. Strong, sensitive, quiet strength can be much more intimidating than the screaming loud guy, and I'm so glad to get to show this side of me, which, to be honest, is a lot like who I really am.