Peter Hook Quotes

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.

People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

Sometimes emotions just come out in their own way.

People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore.

Writing can flow out when I'm feeling something strongly, whether that's joy, pain, fear, desire or anything else. The challenge is actually later, in the second or third or 100th draft of the music, when it can be so easy to cover up the original sentiments by making the music more ornate or cloaked.

I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

A lot of people think I reacted a little too emotionally when I said, 'If I can't beat Adrian Neville, I'm done.' But the truth is, my whole life, I've always followed my heart and my emotions.

I can't say I love football anymore.

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!