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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

I write emotional music.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy, but I really believe that. It's such a euphoric experience that I sort of want to chase that experience as often as possible.