Caroline Polachek Quotes

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I'm a very sentimental, emotional person.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

I don't cry that much, and if I do, it's for a really big thing.

I'm sentimental to a fault.

I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs.

I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.

I cried watching 'Million Dollar Baby.' I'm a big baby, man.

I think my heart will always be made of metal, but it would be ignorant of me and kind of foolish to ignore the other emotional connections you can make in all kinds of music.

I want somebody to hear my song and say, 'You know, man, I've been through that.'

I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.

There's a vulnerability to our music that attracts people.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that allows me to empathize with other people. It's the thing that allows me to create vulnerable art. It's the thing that allows me to create other feelings and make songs that actually grab people and touch people. I feel like I've spent my life fighting that thicker skin because I don't want to become an embittered asshole.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

Because who can describe that look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor.