Cass McCombs Quotes

I'm very sensitive - I'll cry during every movie or commercial - but when it comes to my own feelings, I don't really think about them that much unless I'm making music. Otherwise, I'm either checked out or laughing because that's how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

Your feelings are none of your business.

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.

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

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

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 life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

I'm not too big on feelings.

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

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

Your emotions are very personal, as personal as your data gets.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.