Emotional Progression Quotes

I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

I was almost teaching myself through writing without even realizing it. It's like therapy. You can hear my progression as a person and how much happier I became, which is really cool for me to hear because I'm proud of myself.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.