I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
I'm writing about emotions.
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.
Every emotion that I had over the last three years pretty much had to be put on hold.