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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.