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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

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.

When you stop resisting your emotions, you will quickly realize that your feelings are your friends. They are your soul's way to communicate with you and are meant to guide and inform you.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

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

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

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