Quotes About Expression

When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.

Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.

If you are a woman and an actor, it does not mean that you have to contain or limit yourself to just being that.

I work in a very contained environment, usually.

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential.

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

Content begets content.

The kind of content I want to be part of is hardly made.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

Style without content is bad style.

Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.