Deborah Moggach Quotes

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

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

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents' influence on me. I've talked to a therapist,; I've looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I'm a Sagittarius. Please don't make me reveal more than that. It's tough enough as it is.

It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

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

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

I'm kind of psychotic and I like to talk about things. I'm a Virgo, too, so I like to analyze and overprocess.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

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

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.

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

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.