Iris Dement Quotes

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

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

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

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

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

I am a really sensitive person.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

I was a sensitive boy.

I am a very sensitive person.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

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.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

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

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.