If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.
You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.
If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect
I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.
You can tell actually when he starts to talk about his family, or his Daughters, or his Wife, and his whole face - really he's so really kind of a dear.
The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
