Reflective Mood Quotes

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.