Jim Jarmusch Quotes

My favorite song that I wrote is 'Love Line.' This was my first song that I wrote lyrics for, and I really wanted to express the feeling when you're in love and hoping the other person feels the same way.

I'm really a romantic at heart.

We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

Love is a hole in the heart.

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

I have a romantic side.

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I always wanted to be loved.

I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

I sing a lot about love.

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.